Sweden
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Pro-Palestine demonstration in Sweden
TEHRAN, Nov. 05 (MNA) – Pro-Palestine protesters in Uppsala, Sweden, held a silent demonstration to pay tribute to the innocent people killed by strikes from the Israeli regime in Palestine and Lebanon.
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Israel embassy in Sweden target of shooting
TEHRAN, Oct. 02 (MNA) – Swedish police said Wednesday that a shooting had occurred at the Israeli embassy in Stockholm.
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Swedish foreign minister unexpectedly resigns
TEHRAN, Sep. 05 (MNA) – Sweden's Foreign Minister Tobias Billstrom has announced his resignation as foreign minister and retirement from politics, offering no explanation.
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Teenager shot at school near Stockholm
TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) –A teenager was shot on Wednesday morning at a primary school near the Swedish capital of Stockholm, according to local reports.
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Sweden charges 2 men with hate crime after desecrating Quran
TEHRAN, Aug. 28 (MNA) – Two men have been accused of committing "offenses of agitation against an ethnic or national group" for desecrating the holy Quran in front of mosques and other public places.
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VIDEO: Pro-Palestine protesters in Sweden
TEHRAN, Aug. 17 (MNA) – Pro-Palestine protesters in Gothenburg, Sweden, held a sit-in at the central station, condemning Elbit Systems for its role in the Israeli genocide in Gaza.
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Sweden summons Russian envoy over alleged airspace violation
TEHRAN, Jun. 18 (MNA) – Sweden's foreign ministry said Tuesday that it had summoned Russia's ambassador for talks after a Russian SU-24 bomber allegedly violated its airspace near the strategic Baltic Sea island of Gotland.
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Hamid Nouri case showed Iran diplomatic success: FM spox
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) – Iranian foreign ministry spokesman described Hamid Nouri's release from detention in Sweden as another manifestation of the Islamic Republic’s diplomacy in materializing and securing national interests.
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Hamid Nouri has a message for MKO terrorists from Tehran
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) – Released Iranian national Hamid Nouri, who was illegally imprisoned in Sweden, arrived in Tehran on Saturday and spoke to media at the Iranian capital airport about his illegal detention in Sweden and had a message to MKO.
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Hamid Nouri released: Gharibabadi
TEHRAN, Jun. 15 (MNA) – Secretary of Iran’s High Council for Human Rights Kazem Gharibabadi announced that Hamid Nouri was released.
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Iran's foreign ministry summons Swedish Chargé d'affaires
TEHRAN, Jun. 01 (MNA) – The charge d'affaires of the Swedish embassy was summoned to Iran's foreign ministry on Saturday following allegations leveled against Tehran by a Swedish official.
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Police investigate gunfire near Israeli Embassy in Stockholm
TEHRAN, May 17 (MNA) – Swedish police have detained several people and cordoned off a large area in Stockholm after a patrol heard suspected gunshots, they said on Friday, with the Israeli embassy located in the closed-off area.
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Hamid Nouri transferred from cell to security suit
TEHRAN, Apr. 09 (MNA) – Hamid Nouri, a former Iranian judiciary official who has been illegally incarcerated in Sweden, has been transferred from a cell to a suit in a security region.
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Majid Nouri released from Sweden prison: Embassy
TEHRAN, Apr. 01 (MNA) – The Iranian Embassy in Sweden in a message announced that Majid Nouri, son of the detained Iranian national Hamid Nouri was released from prison.
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Hamid Nouri’s son reportedly arrested in Sweden
TEHRAN, Mar. 29 (MNA) – The Swedish police have reportedly detained Majid Nouri, the son of Hamid Nouri, an Iranian citizen imprisoned in Sweden.
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Iran embassy reacts to SÄPO allegations against Tehran
TEHRAN, Feb. 27 (MNA) – Iranian embassy in Sweden has dismissed an annual report issued by Swedish Security Service (SÄPO) in which Iran has been introduced as a threat against the Nordic country.
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Fire breaks out at Sweden's amusement park
TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) – Black smoke rose over Sweden’s second-largest city on Monday after a fire broke out at a water park under construction at one of the country's biggest amusement centers.
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Top Iran, Sweden diplomats discuss bilateral relations
TEHRAN, Feb. 07 (MNA) – The foreign ministers of Iran and Sweden held a telephone conversation this evening and discussed the latest state of bilateral relations.
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Swedish officials apologize for attack on Iranian embassy
TEHRAN, Jan. 28 (MNA) – Swedish authorities have apologized for the attack on the Iranian embassy in Stockholm and emphasized Sweden's commitment to maintaining and ensuring the security of the embassy and its employees under the Vienna Convention.
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6 killed, injured in train-truck collision in Sweden
TEHRAN, Jan. 15 (MNA) – A train driver died and five passengers were landed in hospital with injuries after a commuter train crashed into a truck in southwestern Sweden on Monday.
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Hamid Nouri’s family to complain at ICC over Swedish ruling
TEHRAN, Dec. 24 (MNA) – The head of the Iranian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee has condemned a recent ruling by a Swedish appeals court that upheld a life sentence for detained Iranian national Hamid Nouri.
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German envoy summoned over accusations against Tehran
TEHRAN, Dec. 21 (MNA) – Germany’s ambassador to Tehran was called to the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in protest at the “baseless accusations” a court in the European country has leveled against Iran.
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Iran blasts verdict by primary, appeal courts on Hamid Nouri
TEHRAN, Dec. 20 (MNA) – Reacting to the Swedish court's verdict on Hamid Nouri's dossier, Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman stressed that Tehran considers the verdict of the primary and appeal courts regarding the Iranian citizen to be unacceptable.
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Swedish court upholds life sentence for Iranian citizen
TEHRAN, Dec. 19 (MNA) – A Swedish appeals court on Tuesday confirmed the conviction of a former Iranian judicial official handed a life sentence to him.
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Norwegian author and playwright wins Nobel Literature Prize
TEHRAN, Oct. 05 (MNA) – Norwegian author, playwright, and poet Jon Fosse has been named the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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Trio win physics Nobel for illuminating electrons
TEHRAN, Oct. 03 (MNA) – Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating incredibly short pulses of light that can capture processes inside atoms and molecules.
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Iran urges Sweden to take action against Qur'an desecration
TEHRAN, Oct. 01 (MNA) – Condemning the Qur'an desecration in Sweden, Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman called on the Swedish government to take practical measures to promote peaceful coexistence between the people of different religions.
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Amir-Abdollahian continues to meet with counterparts in NYC
TEHRAN, Sep. 24 (MNA) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian continued to meet with a number of other foreign ministers while in New York on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly meeting on Sunday.
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Clashes continue after Qur'an burning in Sweden
TEHRAN, Sep. 05 (MNA) – Clashes erupted in an immigrant neighborhood in Sweden’s third-largest city after an anti-Muslim protester set fire to a copy of the Qur'an, police said.
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VIDEO: Arbaeen march in Sweden's Stockholm
TEHRAN, Sep. 04 (MNA) – The footage shows the enthusiastic presence of Swedish Muslims in the annual Arbaeen procession in Stockholm.