Sweden thwarted attack plots by Iranians

In 2017, an ISIS recruit rammed a truck into a crowd in Stockholm, Sweden, resulting in five deaths. File Pic/X

A senior member of the Swedish security police said Thursday that Iran has planned attacks on the country, days after local media reported that two Iranians were deported for a plot to kill three Swedish Jews several years ago.

Earlier this week, Swedish broadcast SR reported that two Iranians had been suspected of planning to kill members of the Swedish Jewish community. They were arrested in 2021 and were expelled from Sweden in 2022 without charges, according to Swedish radio.

Daniel Stenling, counterespionage head at Sweden's domestic security agency, told SR on Thursday that Iran "has been preparing and conducted activities aimed at carrying out a so-called physical attack against someone or something in Sweden".

He added, "we have worked on a number of such cases where we have, as we gauge it, thwarted such preparations." The two deported Iranians sought asylum in the Scandinavian country in 2015.

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