Iran stole Sweden's nuclear technology

Iran stole Sweden's nuclear technology.

Swedish intelligence accuses Iran of trying to steal nuclear technology.

'Swedish Annual Security Report 2021' slams Iran's espionage and nuclear industries amid - what could happen - final part of nuclear deal negotiations

While all international attention is focused on the negotiating tug-of-war between Washington and Tehran - to reactivate the 2015 nuclear pact - Swedish intelligence, through a report, has denounced the Persian Islamic Republic's attempts to get its hands on the Scandinavian country's nuclear weapons technology. The 80-page document, entitled 'Swedish Annual Security Report' for 2021, revealed that "Iran also conducts industrial espionage operations, such as those aimed primarily at the Swedish high-tech industry and Swedish products, which can be used in nuclear weapons programmes".

This was made public on Monday by the US news network Fox News, which also consulted a spokesman for the Swedish Security Service (SÄPO, Swedish acronym for "security police"). At present, "Iran is one of the three countries that pose the greatest threat to the security of Sweden and Swedish interests. The other two are Russia and China," it said.

"Iranian intelligence officers operate, among other ways, under diplomatic cover in Sweden," the report warned of one of the strategies that the Ayatollahs' regime is allegedly employing to get its hands on nuclear information. But this is not a new issue for the Scandinavian government.