Kristersson: “Don't understand” the immigrant criticism

Published 16 June 2024 at 14.57

Domestic. Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson (M) doesn't care much for the criticism directed at him from SD and various immigrant groups after the prisoner exchange with Iran.
 – I don't really understand, he says to Godmorgon världen on the radio's P1.

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SD has criticized that Sweden returned the Iranian Hamid Noury ​​who last year was sentenced by a Swedish court to life imprisonment for his involvement in a mass execution in the Iranian the Gohardasht prison in 1988.

The party's EU parliamentarian Charlie Weimers writes on X that “the mass murderer Hamid Nouri will not be allowed to atone for his crimes” and believes that the agreement with Iran will mean that the country will continue to take Western citizens as hostages .

Also various interest groups for immigrants have reacted negatively. One of them is the Center Party, whose Member of Parliament Alireza Akhondi, who can't be bothered to write in Swedish, calls the agreement شرم‌اور (a “shameful decision”) and accuses the government of “deliberately” not including the Iranian KI researcher Ahmadreza Djalali in the exchange.

“It makes the situation even more difficult to accept”, writes the Iranian.

He wants Foreign Minister Tobias Billström to answer why Ahmadreza Djalali is not included in the settlement. Something which Billström already explained by Iran not recognizing Djalali as a Swedish citizen.

Djalali received Swedish citizenship while in prison in Iran, after being arrested there for spying for Israel during a holiday trip in the country he fled from .

Even Djalali's wife is strongly critical.

Ulf Kristersson responds to the criticism in Sveriges Radio's Godmorgon Världen.

– I have great respect for her disappointment, but don't really understand the criticism. The alternative would have been to leave the two Swedes who could now come home, says the Prime Minister.