"The Swedish government is not in a position to question another country's legal institutions and defend a criminal whose crimes have been fully proven", says a department head at the Iranian Foreign Ministry according to the state-controlled Isna.
Last Friday, the Swedish Foreign Ministry summoned the Iranian ambassador, due to worrying signals regarding the deteriorating health of Swedish citizen Ahmadreza Djalali. The Swedish Foreign Ministry also demanded that Djalali, who has an Iranian background and has been sentenced to death for allegations of espionage, be released immediately.
It is, however, unclear which statements from Pehrson that Iran objects to.
A few weeks ago, the Minister of Education commented on the news that a person who had worked for the Iranian intelligence service had been given a doctoral position in Lund, without the Security Service being informed. "We need to keep an eye on Iran's agents in Sweden", Pehrson wrote on social media at the end of February.
The Iranian regime also claims that they brought up the school shooting in Örebro in the conversation with the ambassador, since an Iranian citizen was one of the victims there. The regime demands to be informed about the criminal investigation.
