Sweden Views Israel-Iran Ceasefire as Fragile but Positive

Delicate, but positive, says Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (The Moderate Party) about the fragile ceasefire between Israel and Iran.

» Published: June 24 2025 at 16:40

Sweden Views Israel-Iran Ceasefire as Fragile but Positive
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At a Swedish press conference in connection with the NATO meeting in The Hague, she compares it to the ceasefire that began between Israel and Lebanon earlier.

Then it was also a little breach of the ceasefire initially, but it still became a ceasefire. So I choose to see the glass as half full, says Malmer Stenergard.

In Norway, Prime Minister Jonas Gahr Støre (AP) has openly declared to the news agency NTB that he does not believe that the US bombings of Iran are compatible with international law.

Malmer Stenergard is significantly more cautious on that topic. But she promises to analyze the issue.

There are many who demand that we put on the judge's wig pretty quickly. I think it's difficult. We have heard that Israel and the US invoke a collective right to a form of self-defense and will of course analyze it, she says in The Hague.

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