Five individuals pressured their approach into the Iranian embassy in Sweden on Tuesday afternoon earlier than being escorted out, the Stockholm police mentioned.
“Police had been referred to as to Iran’s embassy as a result of there was a crowd outdoors and 5 individuals had penetrated into the embassy’s zone,” the police mentioned in a communique.
One particular person was arrested for alleged aggression.
Relations between Sweden and Iran have soured after a Swedish court docket sentenced a former Iranian jail official, Hamid Noury, to life in jail over mass executions in 1988.
On December 19, a Swedish appeals court docket confirmed the life sentence for Noury, 62, who was convicted of “grave breaches of worldwide humanitarian legislation and homicide” over his function within the killings of no less than 5,000 prisoners throughout a 1988 purge of dissidents in Iran. .
Several Swedish residents are being held in Iran, together with a European Union diplomat, Johan Floderus.
Earlier in December, Floderus went on trial in Iran on costs of conspiring with Iran’s arch-enemy Israel.
Iran has used international prisoners as bargaining chips to free its residents held overseas, and Swedish media have advised a prisoner swap is feasible.