Swedish officers have accused Iran of orchestrating a cyberattack that concerned sending hundreds of textual content messages to people in Sweden, calling for retaliation towards those that burned the Quran in 2023.
In response to a senior prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist, the preliminary investigation carried out by Sweden’s SAPO home safety company revealed that the Iranian state, by way of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was accountable for the info breach at a Swedish firm that operates a serious SMS service.
The preliminary investigation has been closed, however Ljungqvist famous that this doesn’t imply the suspected hackers have been utterly exonerated, and the probe could possibly be reopened sooner or later.
The textual content messages, despatched in Swedish, had been attributed to a gaggle referred to as the “Anzu group” and contained threats towards those that desecrated the Quran, referring to Swedes as “demons.” The protests involving the burning of the Quran had been held below the safety of Sweden’s freedom of speech act, regardless of inflicting a rift between the nation’s dedication to free speech and its respect for non secular minorities.
The incidents had briefly sophisticated Sweden’s bid to hitch Nato, as Turkey and its President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had blocked the accession, citing anti-Turkish and anti-Islamic protests in Stockholm. Nevertheless, Sweden finally grew to become a Nato member in March.
Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, had beforehand issued an announcement condemning the desecration of the Quran in Sweden, saying that it had “created emotions of hatred and enmity” in Muslim nations in direction of these accountable and their governments.
SAPO’s operational supervisor, Fredrik Hallström, accused international powers of exploiting vulnerabilities and performing extra aggressively, with out particularly naming any nation.
Sweden, like many Western international locations, doesn’t have any blasphemy legal guidelines, and there’s no particular regulation prohibiting the burning or desecration of spiritual texts.
In Could, Sweden’s home safety company had additionally accused Iran of utilizing established legal networks in Sweden to focus on Israeli or Jewish pursuits within the nation.
