isarnews - In response to the inappropriate and interventionist positions of some Swedish officials against the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mathias Otterstedt, the Swedish Ambassador to Tehran, was summoned to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs by Shahram Ghazizadeh, the Head of the Third Western European Department, and our country's official protest was conveyed to him.
In this session, the Head of the Third Western European Department criticized the inappropriate statements and unfounded and interventionist accusations made by the Swedish Minister of Education against the Islamic Republic of Iran, considering these statements contrary to the norms of international law and diplomatic custom, and stated: The Swedish government is not in a position to question the performance of another country's legal institutions and defend a criminal whose crimes have been fully proven.
The meeting also followed up on the latest status of the case of Niloufar Zare, an Iranian national who was recently attacked and killed in a violent incident in Sweden, and requested that the Iranian government be informed of the judicial investigation into this crime.
The Swedish ambassador stated that he would convey the matter to his government.
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