The Embassy of Iran in

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. It is located at Elfviksvägen 76, Västra Yttringe gård, on

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. Until 1971, the embassy was located in the Villa Gumælius mansion in

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. The current ambassador of Iran to Sweden is

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. Formal diplomatic relations between Sweden and Iran were established in 1929 when a treaty of friendship was signed between the two countries.

Protests at the embassy

On 24 August 1981, a group of thirty-three Iranian exile students stormed into and occupied the embassy in protest of extrajudicial executions and violence in Iran. Earlier during the summer, under the rule of

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, about 700 extrajudicial executions had been carried out in Iran. Later the same day,

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forces stormed the building to release the then ambassador of Iran to Sweden, Abdel Rahmin Gahavi, his wife, and a servant who had been taken

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. The protestors were arrested and taken to the Kronoberg Remand Prison in Stockholm, where twenty-nine of them were later detained in custody pending trial. On 26 June 2009, in the wake of the

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, about 150 people gathered outside the embassy to protest against the Iranian regime. Some of the protesters managed to enter the embassy building, where they engaged in fighting with the embassy's personnel. According to the police, one member of the embassy staff was injured in the clashes. A few of the other protesters and a policeman were also injured. The police evicted the demonstrators, arresting one.

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External links

Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran
official website

Iran–Sweden relations Lidingö Municipality 1920s establishments in Stockholm {{sweden-struct-stub

Protests at the embassy

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