STOCKHOLM: Sweden wants the European Union to officially deem Iran\u2019s Revolutionary Guards a terrorist organization after several attacks on Israeli targets in Sweden, Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson said Sunday.
\nSweden\u2019s Sapo intelligence agency has accused Iran of recruiting members of Swedish criminal gangs to commit \u201cacts of violence\u201d against Israeli and other interests in Sweden, a claim Iran has denied.
\nThree attacks have been carried out against the Israeli embassy in Stockholm in the past year, and two attacks have targeted an Israeli military technology firm in the past six months.
\n\u201cWe want Sweden to seriously address, with other EU countries, the incredibly problematic connection between the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps and their destructive role in the (Middle East) region, but also their escalating actions around various European countries, including Sweden,\u201d Kristersson told the Expressen newspaper.
\n\u201cThe only reasonable consequence \u2026 is that we get a joint terror classification, so that we can act more broadly than (we can with) the sanctions that already exist,\u201d he said.
\nThe Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps is a special branch of the Iranian armed forces whose officers hold key positions in Iran\u2019s establishment
\nIn May, Swedish newspaper Dagens Nyheter cited documents from Israel\u2019s intelligence agency Mossad as saying that the head of the Swedish criminal network Foxtrot, Rawa Majid, and his archrival Ismail Abdo, head of the Rumba gang, had both been recruited by Iran.
\nSwedish public broadcaster SVT reported in early October that two recent attacks on the Israeli embassies in Stockholm and Copenhagen had been ordered by Foxtrot at the behest of Iran.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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