Sweden: Iranian embassy stormed by protesters

Sweden: Iranian embassy stormed by protesters

 

Iran's official news agency, IRNA, described a protest outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm on Friday as a "terrorist attack" after around 100 protesters stormed the compound and a staff member was injured.

 

"Following the terrorist attack by anti-revolutionary groups on Iran's embassy in Stockholm on Friday, the Swedish ambassador was summoned immediately," the IRNA report said.

 

 

The employee, whose nationality was not known, was hurt when protesters entered the compound and attacked him, according to Stockholm police.

 

 

He was punched and kicked and received medical attention at the embassy.

 

 

The protest outside the Iranian embassy in Stockholm broke out on Friday afternoon. Around 150 demonstrators, some of them wearing masks, began throwing rocks and trying to break into the embassy.

 

 

"People were yelling chants and cheers at the Iranian embassy for about an hour, and then about an hour later around 100 of the protesters entered the embassy compound through a gate," Massood Mafan, a witness at the scene, told news agency TT.

 

 

"In the building itself they were stopped by guards."

 

 

Mafan said that he had seen at least three people who were injured, including an older woman who was hit in the back with a

nightstick.

 

 

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"We are here because we demand that Sweden shut down the embassy and suspend all relations with Iran," Mohammad Mohammad Bagheri, 29, told TT.

 

 

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Source: The Local (English)