On Tuesday, the Prosecutor’s Office and the Security Police singled out Iran for being behind a mass mailing last August. Around 15,000 Swedes then received a text message urging them to take revenge on Koran burners.
According to prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, the Iranian hacker group acted on behalf of the regime in Tehran.
The accusations are now denied by Iran.
“Iran’s embassy in Stockholm considers the accusations baseless and dismisses them,” reports the Iranian news agency Tasnim News.
“The embassy believes that these claims and their publication in the media poison and affect the atmosphere in the relations between the two countries”, writes the embassy further.
Foreign Minister Maria Malmer Stenergard (M) writes in a post on X that Iran’s ambassador has been summoned to the Foreign Ministry due to the data breach.
“That a state actor, in this case Iran, according to the Security Police’s assessment is behind an action that aims to destabilize Sweden or increase polarization in our country is of course very serious – and completely unacceptable,” writes Stenergard.