Swedish PM speaks on Iran. As readers know, Sweden assumed the presidency of the EU on Wednesday.

Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt at a press conference in Stockholm today:

"Iran is a very important country, in the South and in the region, and to understand the world a lot today. I think it was a clear message given in the elections and very clearly also afterwards in the reaction that Iranian people in itself according for reforms and freedom, something we know about, we think it is very important and we stand up for in Europe and we will do so everywhere. But of course we must ask ourselves the question how could we put this and at the same time not coming to a position where we have been before that we polarise Iran from the rest of the world and that we are made an excuse for the use of violence or the use of repression inside Iran. That was the balance we needed to struck in Europe and also in other parts of the world."

Raw video, based on EBS.
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