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February 13, 2012
Iran slams 'terrorist attack' on embassy
Published: 27 Jun 09 09:24 CET | Double click on a word to get a translation
Online: http://www.thelocal.se/20316/20090627/
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.
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"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.
The three to four police offers who were initially at the scene couldn't stop the protesters from storming the embassy. Around 20 patrol cars were later dispatched to the scene.
“It was a little chaotic out there. We have had demonstrations there for several days and it has been extremely calm. But (then) they started to put on masks and throw rocks and try to break into the compound,” said Janne Hedlund, commander on duty at the Stockholm police.
By 6:30 pm the situation outside the embassy was calm. Between 150 and 200 people remained outside yelling chants.
“We are here because we demand that Sweden shut down the embassy and suspend all relations with Iran,” Mohammad Mohammad Bagheri, 29, told TT.
Ulf Höglund of the Stockholm police said the number of protesters inside the compound remains unconfirmed. Two people have been arrested on suspicion of vandalism.
According to police, there is no information about injured protesters, but one woman showed bruises she claimed were from a baton.
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Obviously, the Swedish police could not do anything really forceful about stopping the storming, or they would have been charged with violating the human rights of the protesters who are attempting to effect change in Iran, making it more like Western countries.
I suspect were are going to see a lot more similar attacks in the coming weeks and months.
You can't condone the "storming" of an embassy one day and then complain about someone "storming" one yours the next.
Should the protesters have battered the employee? NO!
Should the Iranian students have taken US embassy personnel hostage? NO!
Apparently, when I used the well-known term of approbrium for the police for the protesters, it was automatically rejected. Think posts should be read before they are rejected.
All I said was that the Embassy is now quiet, with only a dozen or so police sitting around. The place is a security nightmare as it can be attacked from any direction, and it is in an open field.
Think any new trouble will occur after dark.
Mad at protesters for injuring an employee, like our cleaning woman's husband who works for it, but fortunately is back in the Philippines now on his summer vacation. They are refugees from Marcos' tyranny.
How does injuring people like this get rid of the Iranian mullahs???
As for all the secrets they had built up - what were shredded while the students were taking over - the Iranians put them all back together, resulting in the new government publishing more than fifty volumes of them over the next five years.
America has never gotten over this humiliation, far more burning that what happened to their authors.
Every country is spying on other countries, but cannot break diplomat relations for all kinds of important reasons, as the government in Tehran is daily reminded of, given its having none with the USA.
when israel massacres thousends palestinians, the swedish police crowded into the israeli embassy to protect it but now when iranian embassy is attacked by bunch of westrenized iranians, then it is ok.
i do not believe any government or journalist in the west talking about democracy and human rights.
here you have PALETINE! israel has been occupying palestine for decades , we did not see the same reaction from the sweet swedish media and government.
they called the legitimate fight against the terrorist israeli occupation as extremism or terrorism!!!
or maybe it is okey if israel kills and occupies...
please STOP talking about human rights. you ought to be silent because when you speak it smells fishy!
the swesdish government did not summoned the israeli creminal ambassador when israel shelled schools and hospitals in GAZA with white phosphorous.
DO NOT LECTURE ANYONE ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS AND DEMOCRACY. THE HYPOCRICY STINKES!
The heading to this news should be 'EXTREMISTS ATTACK ON IRAN EMBASSY'
if western people are more concerned about democracy in eastern countries then they should first go and attack the embassies of saudia arabia, UAE, egypt, libya and etc!!
Stop bullshitting now in the name of demacracy!!!
These protesters are playing hard-ball in their protests, and their carrying photographs of the Iranian President dressed up as a Hitler reminds me of what happened to Rabin before he was assassinated in Israel.
When Israel is bombed with rockets for 9 years without answering, it is OK. When israelis are kidnapped and executed, it is OK. When the israeli sportsmen are attacked in Malmö, it is OK, when Iranians are sponsoring explosions in embassies, jewish centers and airplanes, it is OK. BUT when few iranian embassy employees are a little bit scared, everybody start crying and complaining and bringing up Israel. You are a miserable bunch.
Swedish Police department needs to educate the Police to not follow double standards. it sucks in European Countries People attack embassy and kick diplomats.
What is the different between old Iran and Sweden now? Both attacked diplomats!
Shame on both! At least have some respect for diplomats!
It is more than ironic that we are constantly bombarded with stories about what is allegedly going on in Iran - thanks to disinformation supplied by various intelligence agencies - while what goes on around here is under-reported, if at all.
I can only find one general story about what happened here in Lidingö - Louise Nordström's for the AP - while the press goes on and on about splits in the Iranian leadership, new mass rallies, etc., ad nauseam.
Then there is never any background to the never-ending effort to bring down the mullahs and other difficult ideologues wherever they may be when we are the worst of them - what I have written seven articles about:
http://cryptome.org/0001/usa-disasters7.htm
This is the morality you've had about us:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655
As for US embassy, it wasn't attacked by Mullahs or government, it was attacked by students. There were actually no government in that time. US embassy was trying to run a coup to take their beloved brutal king back to power.
As for this attack on embassy I really appologise the Swedish polices who suffered from these idiots.
As for those 20 innocents who died in Iran, I'm deeply sorry and angered and I hope that their murderers come to justice very soon.
Sod this , lets be ruled by the Sami/Inuits!
I suggest you ask for a raise!
"Several of the memoranda quoted in this chapter come from those books. Many of the documents published were fully shredded pages that had been reconstituted. The painstaking, eye-destroying care with which this was done was a testimony to the burning commitment to expose and humiliate the United States." (p. 277)
Guess Shawcross is lying too, and deserves yet a bigger bonus!
Getting a tad confusing at pres.with folk not even able to agree on the time of day, let alone if the thread is about M.J. Iran or whatever else.
To pull it all together, I wonder how Whacko Jackos life would have turned out had he been born in Iran?
@Mr Uncle. Are you in senses? Millions of Palestinians died. The lebanese died. Iran-Iraq war was orchestrated. Taliban were supported. Osama Bin Laden is an American puppet used by USA and now tell the people that a bunch Iranians were attacked in Embassy !!
Be ashamed of yourself. When Ahmedinejad says that there was no holocaust, he is dead right ! This holocaust has been used by the West to create the illegitimate state of Israel. And that's how it is. By the way where is Aushwitz in Austria where the gas chambers were used to suffocate thousands of Jews. There is no such thing my dear. Do your research.
It is completely deplorable what happened to that aircraft but as I said previously I am not from the United States and I don´t talk on behalf of them,my point is the people of Iran who want to live in a more free society,I mean having human rights,got me?,I guess you live in Iran right?,that was what I previously refered,if you like your current government and defend it then you should be happy living under their rules so would be hypocritical if you were not standing what is happenning to your fellow citizens and talking good about Iran´s government from abroad,that´s all what I think.Same s...t happen with Venezuela,many live abroad but support Chavez´s dictatorship.
Explain please.
I am glad that someone gave the people who attacked the embassy a thumping. Its funny how it sounds like the "older woman" who got hit in the back is a "victim" - if she was on the grounds and was not supposed to be there then she deserved whatever beating she got!