Sweden says Iran was behind thousands of text messages calling for revenge over Quran burnings

Associated Press

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — Sweden says that Iran was behind thousands of text messages that were sent to people in the Scandinavian country calling for revenge over the burnings of Islam’s holy book in 2023. Iran denies the accusation. Senior Swedish prosecutor Mats Ljungqvist says an investigation has shown that Iran’s paramilitary Revolutionary Guard carried out a data breach and managed to send some 15,000 messages text messages in Swedish over the string of public burnings of the Quran in Sweden in the summer of 2023. Iran’s embassy in Sweden in a statement has rejected the accusation as “baseless” and says it is intended to “poison” relations between Tehran and Stockholm.