Tag: Iran

  • Escalate efforts for the release of Swedish citizens in Iran

    Escalate efforts for the release of Swedish citizens in Iran

    It has been 600 days since Swedish citizen and EU official Johan Floderus was arrested by Iranian authorities. The 33-year-old Swedish national was arrested on April 17, 2022, at Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport, while returning home from a trip with friends. He is being held in Iran Evin prison, accused of espionage without formal…

  • EU countries ban Koran burning

    EU countries ban Koran burning

    Denmark will punish desecration of a holy book with up to two years in prison under a new law Denmark's parliament passed a law banning desecration of holy texts such as the Koran, Torah and Bible on Thursday after a controversial debate. Violators face up to two years in prison or a fine. The legislation…

  • COP28: Denmark contributes DKK 128 million to pan-African initiative for green energy

    COP28: Denmark contributes DKK 128 million to pan-African initiative for green energy

    Denmark is investing heavily in Africa's conversion to renewable energy. But it is also seeking a competitive advantage: Africa supplies many of the crucial raw materials for the global green transition, and Russia, China, Iran and others already have a strategic foothold in the region. The full version of this article is only available to…

  • In a widely shared video, a man accuses Prime Minister Orpo "genocide"

    In a widely shared video, a man accuses Prime Minister Orpo "genocide"

    The Turku cafe case has been viewed thousands of times since the Iranian state news agency IRNA reported it.

  • China in Eurasia Briefing: When Biden and Xi Meet, What’s at Stake?

    China in Eurasia Briefing: When Biden and Xi Meet, What’s at Stake?

    Welcome back to the China In Eurasia briefing, an RFE/RL newsletter that traces China’s resurgent influence from Eastern Europe to Central Asia. I’m RFE/RL correspondent Reid Standish and here’s what I’m following right now. Listen to the Podcast Talking China In Eurasia. Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google | Youtube When Biden and Xi meet,…

  • Cell phone bans in primary school, Ukraine's future and last-minute Christmas presents

    Cell phone bans in primary school, Ukraine's future and last-minute Christmas presents

    Hour 1: This week's EU summit has been described as decisive for the future of both Ukraine and the Union. How did it go and what consequences does it have for Ukraine's continued defense against the Russian invasion? Hear Sveriges Radio's Ukraine correspondent Lubna el-Shanti and Göran von Sydow, director of the Swedish Institute for…

  • The Iranian designer and activist is making waves on Denmark’s fashion scene

    The Iranian designer and activist is making waves on Denmark’s fashion scene

    Karo Kurrani is a Persian fashion designer and part of the new guard of creatives in the Nordics. In Iran, his family has worked with drugs for centuries. In Denmark, Kurrani’s eponymous label modernizes ancient techniques and injects political activism into fashion. The full version of this article is only available to subscribers. Already a…

  • Daughter: Life of German jailed in Iran ‘at great risk’

    Daughter: Life of German jailed in Iran ‘at great risk’

    paris – A German national kidnapped in Dubai and sentenced to death by Iran is almost unable to walk and talk because of health conditions that prison authorities have failed to treat properly, his daughter told AFP. Jamshid Sharmahd, who is also a US resident, suffers from Parkinson’s disease and may die due to his…

  • Right now: Analysis of the Hezbollah leader’s speech on the war in Gaza

    Right now: Analysis of the Hezbollah leader’s speech on the war in Gaza

    “We have been part of the war since October 8,” says Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah today. Hezbollah, based in Lebanon and supported by Iran, has fired rockets at Israel during this war. However, there has been no major intervention in the conflict so far. Hear Anders Ekholm, lieutenant colonel at the Defense Academy.

  • The agents who assassinate in the service of the state

    The agents who assassinate in the service of the state

    When a man of Indian background is shot dead in Canada in the summer of 2023, India is singled out as the culprit by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. The murdered man, a Canadian citizen with Indian roots, was a religious leader and Sikh who supported the independence movement for Khalistan in India. It is a…

  • The Sunday interview

    The Sunday interview

    She has made 17 documentary films, and often with the camera lens turned towards her first homeland, Iran. Always with a critical edge against the Islamic regime; in the films “The Queen and Me”, “My Stolen Revolution”, and the recently released spy drama “Son of the Mullah”. Nahid Persson Sarvestani possesses a unique ability to…

  • Anthony Blinke’s third most influential Jew in the world, Zelensky fell off the list

    Anthony Blinke’s third most influential Jew in the world, Zelensky fell off the list

    Commentators believe that the attack by Hamas will effectively spell the end of Netanyahu. He had to face criticism and opposition for proposed judicial reforms. The most significant change in rankings is for the comedian-turned-president of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelenskywhich was number one last year but has fallen off the list entirely this year. Explaining the…

  • The threat of a major war – so Iran smuggles weapons to Israel’s enemies

    The threat of a major war – so Iran smuggles weapons to Israel’s enemies

    Ekot’s reporter Katja Magnusson tells the story of how Iran became the country in the Middle East with the largest arsenal of robots – which have also been spread to allies in Lebanon, Syria, Iraq and Yemen. Iran has threatened to attack Israel if the war against Hamas in Gaza escalates. Host: Robin Olin Guest:…

  • The countries behind the arms race between Russia and Ukraine

    The countries behind the arms race between Russia and Ukraine

    In a spectacular operation last year, US soldiers boarded a ship off the coast of Oman and found Iranian weapons bound for the Huthi rebels in Yemen’s civil war. The US seized the weapons from Iran for violating a UN embargo on arms deliveries to Yemen. Recently, the United States decided to send the ammunition…

  • Live: Hundreds dead in hospital blast,says Gaza health ministry

    Live: Hundreds dead in hospital blast,says Gaza health ministry

    The Hamas-run Gaza health ministry says at least 200 people have been killed in what it described as an Israeli airstrike on the al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza City. According to early reports, people were seeking shelter in the hospital at the time of the blast. Read our live blog for all the latest updates. All…

  • Amazing art and cultural events in the capital region this autumn

    Amazing art and cultural events in the capital region this autumn

    Expected high-profile exhibitions featuring works by classical artists such as Rafael Ward and Kaija Aarikka to the masters of impressionism, incl Claude Monet and August Renoir. In addition, top-class contemporary art finds a home in the city in the presentations of Japanese artists Ryoji Ikeda In Amos Rex and Ars Fennica exhibition at Kiasma, which…

  • Live: Biden says Hamas attacks on Israel were ‘sheer evil

    Live: Biden says Hamas attacks on Israel were ‘sheer evil

    US President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House on Tuesday, said that Saturday’s attack on Israel was “sheer evil”, and reiterated US support for Israel. Also on Tuesday, Hamas attacked the southern Israeli city of Ashkelon after the militant group warned residents to leave, international media reported. Follow our live blog for all the…

  • EXTRA: The arrest may calm the conflict in Sweden

    EXTRA: The arrest may calm the conflict in Sweden

    According to SVT, Rawa Majid, the Kurdish fox, was arrested in Iran, on the border with eastern Iraqi Kurdistan, on Friday. We have spoken to several people about this and the picture being given is that the police are aware of rumors that he has been arrested but are not sure as the arrest has…

  • This is how Israel’s spies missed Hamas’ attack plans

    This is how Israel’s spies missed Hamas’ attack plans

    On Saturday, October 7, 2023, parts of Israel will wake up to the sound of aircraft alarms. Thousands of rockets strike, at the same time the country is attacked by ground troops. The attacker is Hamas, the Islamist Palestinian movement labeled a terrorist organization by both the EU and the US. – The Hamas groups…

  • Information for SVT: Gang leader Rawa Majid has been arrested in Iran

    Information for SVT: Gang leader Rawa Majid has been arrested in Iran

    According to information to SVT, the gang leader Rawa Majid has been arrested in Iran. Ekot broadcasts directly with SVT’s crime reporter Diamant Salihu about the latest we know.

  • Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned female Iranian activist

    Nobel Peace Prize awarded to imprisoned female Iranian activist

    OSLO, Norway – This year’s Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to Narges Mohammadi, a women’s and human rights activist imprisoned in Iran. Mohammadi has been arrested by the Iranian government 13 times, convicted five times and sentenced to 31 years in prison and 154 lashes. The Nobel committee said Mohammadi’s life embodies the “Woman…

  • The Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi receives the Nobel Peace Prize

    The Iranian activist Narges Mohammadi receives the Nobel Peace Prize

    Human rights activist Narges Mohammadi is imprisoned for her fight for women’s rights in Iran. Now she has been awarded this year’s Nobel Peace Prize. “The award makes me resilient and hopeful,” says Mohammadi. “Women, Life, Liberty.” This is how Nobel Committee chairman Berit Reiss-Andersen began her award speech, referring to the slogan Iranian women…

  • Russian scientist wins the Nobel Prize

    Russian scientist wins the Nobel Prize

    Aleksey Ekimov was part of a trio of scientists honored for discovering and developing quantum dot technology Russian physicist Aleksey Ekimov and two American and French scientists have won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their discovery of tiny clusters of atoms called quantum dots. Decades after the breakthrough, these “quantum dots” are now…

  • Global demand for universal social security

    Global demand for universal social security

    (Washington) – Governments and international financial institutions should commit to creating social security systems that enable everyone to realize their rights, 43 human rights and economic justice organizations said today. Governments and financial institutions should end policies that have failed millions of people. The groups sent one joint statement to the World Bank and International…

  • Noah’s new dads

    Noah’s new dads

    As a 13-year-old, Noah is forced to flee his home, country and family and leave everything he knows behind. After a long and difficult journey, he lands as an unaccompanied refugee in Sweden in 2015. Rainbow family Here he is placed with the couple Gert and Lasse. Noah has never heard of homosexuality before, and…

  • YLE: The Finnish labor market is starting to reflect the economic recession

    YLE: The Finnish labor market is starting to reflect the economic recession

    “It’s really an alarming sign of development.” The situation has clearly weakened from the previous year. The number of open jobs has decreased by 37 percent, while the number of unemployed job seekers has increased by 4.3 percent. The number of new vacancies, on the other hand, decreased by 32 percent from a year ago…

  • Iran blasts Sweden for inaction against insulting the Koran

    Iran blasts Sweden for inaction against insulting the Koran

    TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iran’s Foreign Ministry criticized the Swedish government and police forces for their passive reaction to the repeated desecrations of the Holy Quran, reminding Stockholm that actions speak louder than words. – Politics news – In a statement released on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani strongly condemned the latest case of…

  • Nabil Bahoui Pen’s contract with Persepolis

    Nabil Bahoui Pen’s contract with Persepolis

    TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Swedish forward Nabil Bahoui officially signed a contract with Persepolis football club on Sunday. – Sports News – The 32-year-old winger has joined the Iranian club on a one-year contract. Bahoui will wear shirt number 14 for the Reds. He has most recently played in Qatar SC. Bahoui has also represented Sweden’s…

  • The Bank of Finland: The recovery of the Finnish economy is delayed

    The Bank of Finland: The recovery of the Finnish economy is delayed

    “Tama is expected to remain low, but the economy will also recover in the summer more slowly than estimated. The statistics that became available in the summer show weak development for the rest of the year. In addition, risks in the domestic and global economy have increased. compressed Meri ObstbaumHead of forecasting at the Bank…

  • Iranian nurses receive a warm welcome in the Danish healthcare system

    Iranian nurses receive a warm welcome in the Danish healthcare system

    The Danish embassy in Tehran is busy. Many nurses want to work in Denmark, and they receive a warm welcome The full version of this article is only available to subscribers. Already a subscriber, log in here: sign in Forgot your password? Get unlimited access to all of The Copenhagen Post Our independent reporting can…

  • Swedish Forward Bahoui arrives in Tehran

    Swedish Forward Bahoui arrives in Tehran

    TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Swedish forward Nabil Bahoui arrived in Tehran on Friday evening to finalize his contract with Persepolis football team. – Sports News – The 32-year-old winger will join the Iranian side on a one-year contract. He has most recently played in Qatar SC. Persepolis had also been linked with Ecuadorian striker Felipe Caicedo.…

  • According to the Finnish Kennel Club, Mäntsälä is the most dog-friendly municipality

    According to the Finnish Kennel Club, Mäntsälä is the most dog-friendly municipality

    Dogs are an integral part of many people’s lives and offer opportunities for outdoor activities and hobbies. “Local municipal services and dog-friendliness have a significant impact on the everyday lives of dog owners and dog enthusiasts. Good services facilitate activities such as walking the dog, dog-related hobbies and promote the well-being of dogs. Dog enthusiasts…

  • Nabil Bahoui joins Persepolis

    Nabil Bahoui joins Persepolis

    TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Swedish forward Nabil Bahoui joined the Persepolis football team on Tuesday. – Sports News – The 32-year-old winger has signed a one-year contract with the Iranian club. He has most recently played in Qatar SC. Persepolis had also been linked with Ecuadorian striker Felipe Caicedo. Bahoui has also represented Sweden’s national team…