Swedish prosecutors announced that the intelligence service of the Islamic Republic hacked an SMS operator in 2023 and sent messages urging people to take revenge on protesters who burned the Koran. Prosecutors said in the summer of 2023, after A wave of protests, 15,000 messages were sent “demanding revenge for burning Qurans”.
This institution stated: The aim was to create division in the Swedish society.
In a separate statement, Sweden’s intelligence service (Säpo) announced that a hacking group had been identified “on behalf of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps to carry out an infiltration campaign”. Fredrik Hallström, Säpo’s head of operations, said in a statement: “The target of The sentence was to present an image of Sweden as an Islamophobic country. Swedish Justice Minister Gunnar Strömer told the TT news agency: “That a state actor, in this case Iran, according to the assessment of the security service, is behind an action aimed at destabilization Sweden or increasing polarization in our country, it is definitely very serious.”
The body noted that on August 1, 2023, Swedish media reported that a large number of people had received text messages calling for revenge against people who had burned Muslim holy books. According to prosecutors, the investigation showed that a group called the Anzu team was behind this operation.
In August last year, the Swedish intelligence service Säpo raised the threat level to four on a scale of five, after a series of protests that included the burning of Qurans made the country a “priority target”. Iraqi protesters in July of that year They attacked the Swedish embassy in Baghdad twice, and in the second case, they started a fire inside the compound.
Nariman Gharib
