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February 13, 2012
Protesters arrested at Malmö anti-Iran demo
Published: 23 Apr 09 10:56 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/19034/20090423/
Several people were arrested by police at a demonstration against the Iranian regime held in Malmö on Thursday morning.
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The protest was directed against the Iranian regime and against embassy staff visiting the city to give "consular assistance" to an Iranian citizen.
The demonstrators argued however that the embassy staff were in Malmö to spy on Iranian refugees and their families in Sweden and to develop an "Iranian spy network" in the country.
The demonstrators called on Sweden to take a tougher official stance on Iran and the alleged activities of the embassy staff.
When the embassy personnel arrived at the address chaos broke out, according to news agency TT. Several demonstrators attempted to prevent the staff from entering the building.
When several of the demonstrators broke through the police cordon they were arrested.
The visit from the Iranian embassy is planned to continue into Friday. A similar visit in Gothenburg last month was met with similar, although somewhat calmer, demonstrations.
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I am asking this because I would like to establish your view if Iran is actaully one of those "good countries" that makes the list.
does Iran fight any one outside their border ?? if not how is it terrorist regime ?
All of these so-called anti-Iranian regime measures have been Anti-Iranian people!! I'm not surprised if I see racial tendecies behind this.
Brtahan, yes we're dirty backward third world andwe don't deserve desent life like yours. I'm sad that we still live in the time of 1950s ideologies.