Tasnim - Sweden's foreign minister said Tehran agreed to compensate the families of the foreign victims of a downed Ukraine Airlines jetliner.
Carrying 167 passengers and nine crewmembers, Ukraine International Airlines flight PS752 crashed outside Tehran's Imam Khomeini International Airport on January 8, moments following takeoff after being mistakenly ...
MNA Sweden said on Wednesday it was holding talks with Iran, Britain and others over a Swedish-owned, British-flagged tanker seized last week by Iran in the Strait of Hormuz.
Sweden is concerned by developments in the Strait of Hormuz. For Sweden and the EU it is vital that freedom of navigation is protected. Given the very serious situation in ...
Reuters - A delegation from Yemens Saudi-backed government left for Sweden on Wednesday to attend peace talks with members of the Houthi group, in a renewed U.N. push to end a war that has brought economic ruin and famine.
One representative of the internationally recognized government, Abdullah al-Alimi, tweeted that the talks were a true opportunity ...
Press TV - Egypt, France, and Sweden has called for an emergency UN Security Council meeting over the recent escalation of tensions concerning the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in East Jerusalem al-Quds.
The assembly would be to "urgently discuss how calls for deescalation in Jerusalem can be supported," said Sweden's political affairs coordinator ...
The Independent- No one was injured in the blaze at the Imam Ali Islamic Centre on Sunday evening
Swedens largest Shia mosque has been partially destroyed by fire in what police are treating as an arson attack.
Police spokesman Lars Bystrom said the fire, in the Stockholm suburb of Jakobsberg, appeared to have been lit from the outside".
No ...
MNA Spokesperson of Irans Foreign Ministry, while condemning the Stockholm truck attack, said uprooting terrorism required serious determination, honesty and global consensus.
Bahram Ghasemi, Spokesman of Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, slammed the Friday terror attack in the Swedish capital which left a number of innocent people dead and ...
IRNA Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif conferred with Carl Bildt, the former prime minister of Sweden on the sidelines of the ongoing Munich Security Conference (MSC).
The two officials discussed issues of mutual interest in the meeting on Saturday.
The 53rd edition of Munich Security Conference opened in the German city on Friday....
IRNA Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qasemi ruled out any connection between a draft resolution and the recent visit of Swedens prime minister to Tehran.
Presentation of human rights draft resolution is not something new and it has nothing to do with recent visit by Swedish prime minister to Iran, Qasemi said.
Qasemis remarks came in reaction ...
BBC- The Swedish government has defended its decision to have its officials wear headscarves during a trip to Iran, saying that failing to do so would have broken the law.
Trade Minister Ann Linde led a business team last week and faced criticism for wearing a headscarf, or hijab.
Sweden says it has the world's first "feminist government".
A ...
IRNA - Swedish Prime Minister, Stefan Lfven, who is due to visit Tehran next month, says Iran is a very important actor in the region.
In an interview with IRNA in London, Kjell Stefan Lfven, a Swedish politician who has been the Prime Minister of Sweden since 2014 and the Leader of the Social Democrats since 2012, said, 'We have an interest to develop ...
The new Swedish ambassador to Tehran, Helena Sngeland, and the new Sierra Leonean ambassador, Elimam Amara kamara were received by the Iranian FM Zarif on Tuesday afternoon in Tehran. The two new envoys handed the unsealed copy of their letters of credence to the Iranian minister.
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TEHRAN, Sep. 21 (MNA) An official has announced that Albania and Sweden have become new customers of certain Iranian petrochemical products.
By the end of the previous Iranian year, China enjoyed a 50-percent share of Irans petrochemical and polymer exportswhile removal of sanctions attracted European countries to the Iranian market.
Meanwhile,...
TEHRAN, Aug. 29 (MNA) The Iranian Energy Minister Chitchian has reported on signing of new water consumption management contracts with Swedish and French firms.
Hamid Chitchian, on the sidelines of a meeting with the visiting French Environment Minister Sgolne Royal, pointed to capacities and potentials of Iran in power and water industries saying ...
Tehran, June 8, IRNA Inspector of Iran Carton and Paper Managers' Association said that Finland and Sweden have voiced readiness to supply required paper layers in folding carton sector.
Mohammad Reza Kheirkhah Kermani was a member of an Iranian economic team which was part of a 60-member delegation that has recently accompanied Foreign Minister ...
Stockholm, June 1, IRNA Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif on Wednesday dismissed claims by certain countries about vilation of human rights in Iran, saying that Iran is the only country in the region having free elections.
Zarif made the remarks speaking at a joint press conference in Stockholm with his Swedish counterpart Margot Wallstrom.
He ...
Up to eight Daesh militants have arrived in Sweden and are preparing to carry out terror attacks in the country's capital of Stockholm, according to Iraqi security service.
STOCKHOLM (Sputnik) Swedens Expressen newspaper reported, citing own sources that the Iraqi secret service had provided the Swedish Security Service (SAPO) withthis information....
TEHRAN (Tasnim) Muslim and non-Muslim movie-goers in Sweden warmly welcomed a recent screening of the Iranian film Muhammad (PBUH), the Messenger of God, made by acclaimed director Majid Majidi.
The film was screened in the Swedish capital of Stockholm once for film critics, journalists, and students, and once for the public.
The screening ...
TEHRAN (ISNA)- Iran plans to hold special tour for tourism technical media, investors, travel agency operators and hoteliers of China, Germany and Sweden to invite more visitors from the countries, said Director General of Iran's Marketing and Tourism Development Organization Mohammad Kazem Khaledi.
The tour focusing on showing attractions in Iranian ...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas haspraised a decision by Sweden to officially recognize Palestine as an independent state.
"President Abbas welcomes Sweden's decision," AFP quoted Nabil Abu Rudeina, a spokesman for the Palestinian national unity government, as saying on Thursday.
The spokesman said that Abbas termed the decision by the Swedish ...