The Swedish government is chartering a plane to fly home Swedes in the UAE who are stranded as a result of the Iran war. The plan is for it to take off from Dubai late on Saturday.
The US and Israel’s lightning attack on Iran has left Sweden with a dilemma. As Nato’s newest member with a large Iranian community – but also a traditional stickler for international law – Sweden has so far chosen to sit on the fence in the conflict. The question is how long that can be sustained, writes The Local's James Savage.
Swedish Foreign Minister Tobias Billström condemned on Saturday the execution of Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab, as the Iranian judiciary announced Chaab's death sentence had been carried out after a conviction for "terrorism."
Iran executed on Saturday Swedish-Iranian dissident Habib Chaab for "terrorism", the judiciary said, in the Islamic republic's latest use of the death penalty against dual nationals.
A Swedish-Iranian academic convicted of spying for Israel is set to be executed in Iran later this month, a news agency in the country reported on Wednesday.
The wife of Swedish-Iranian academic Ahmadreza Djalali said that she had been informed by her husband's lawyer that Iranian authorities had decided to postpone his execution.
An Iranian student planning on starting university in Sweden this autumn has told The Local he and many others risk being unable to take up their places after the Swedish embassy cancelled their visa interview appointments.
Sweden on Friday stopped direct flights to Iran, citing "unclarity" around the crash of a Ukrainian passenger plane earlier this week where 176 people were killed.
A total of 17 people resident in Sweden were on the Ukrainian flight that crashed in Iran on Wednesday morning, according to Scandinavian media reports.
Sweden on Wednesday remanded an Iranian man in custody, suspected of war crimes and murders committed in Iran in the summer of 1988, Swedish prosecutors said.
The Stena Impero, seized in July by Iran, has not been able to leave the port of Bandar Abbas despite Tehran's statements to the contrary, its Swedish owner says.
Swedish representatives confirmed they had received reports indicating that Iran was to release a Swedish-owned oil tanker, but said the ship had still not been freed.
An Iranian journalist is asking to stay in Sweden after fleeing Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif's tour of the country, Swedish officials have confirmed.
The Swedish company that owns the UK-flagged oil tanker seized by Iran said on Wednesday it had finally been able to contact its crew being held on board and they declared themselves "safe".
An Italian student in Stockholm is campaigning to save his boyfriend from being deported to Iran, after the 19-year-old's asylum application was rejected on the grounds that his account of his homosexuality and relationship was "unreliable".
Iran has formally criticised Sweden over its decision to grant nationality to an Iranian professor sentenced to death on spying charges, the foreign ministry said on Tuesday.
Attempts to convince Iranian courts to review the death sentence given to an academic convicted of spying for Israel have failed, according to the man’s lawyer, who says the sentence is now "definitive".
