"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 is sentenced to death accused of espionage, be released immediately.
It is, however, unclear which statements from Pehrson that Iran opposes.
A few weeks ago, the Education Minister commented on the news that a person who had worked for the Iranian intelligence service had been given a doctoral position in Lund, without Säpo 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 claims that they also 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 that Iran be informed about the criminal investigation.
