Students reject embassy’s complaints
October 18, 2011
A Norwegian students’ organization is fending off pressure from the Iranian Embassy in Oslo to remove posters that the organization has spread to all colleges and universities around the country. The embassy finds the posters offensive because they depict the late Ayatollah Khomeini on the run from protesting students. The poster is part of an [...]
Iranian defense lawyer wins refuge
August 9, 2010
Norwegian Foreign Minister Jonas Gahr Støre said he’s glad that Iranian human rights advocate and defense lawyer Mohammed Mostafaei has arrived safely in Norway, after fleeing Iran under threat of arrest. Mostafaei landed in Oslo over the weekend after first fleeing to Turkey and then traveling on to Norway, for which he already held a [...]
Foreign Ministry lodges protest
July 6, 2010
Iran’s ambassador to Norway has been called into the Foreign Ministry in Oslo, to receive the Norwegian government’s formal protest against looming executions in Iran. In one of the cases, an Iranian mother faces being stoned to death for alleged adultery. Iranian Ambassador Seyed Hossein Rezvani was summoned to the ministry at Vika Terrasse on [...]
Police struggle to secure embassies
June 4, 2010
Oslo has become like “flypaper” for demonstrations tied to conflicts far beyond Norway’s borders, worries a top Norwegian police official, and that’s making it harder to secure the local embassies of countries involved. Newspaper Aftenposten reports that the Norwegian Foreign Ministry doesn’t think the police are doing a good enough job when demonstrations break out. [...]
More protests at Iranian embassy
May 12, 2010
Iran’s embassy in Oslo has been the site of more protests, which resulted in vandalism to embassy vehicles. Many Iranians in Norway are unhappy with the situation in their homeland, and don’t feel secure themselves. Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) reported Wednesday that the windows of three embassy cars were smashed, while demonstrators also threw stones and [...]
Norway and Iran expel diplomats
March 3, 2010
Relations between Norway and Iran have taken a turn for the worse, with each country expelling diplomats after Norway granted asylum to a former consul at Iran’s embassy in Oslo. The former consul claims Iran is simply trying to prevent other Iranian diplomats from defecting as well. The diplomatic drama started earlier this year, when [...]
Former Iranian diplomat wins asylum, says others are quitting, too
February 17, 2010
An Iranian diplomat-turned-refugee in Norway, who left his post at the Iranian Embassy in Oslo to protest his own government’s harsh treatment of political opponents, has been granted political asylum in Norway. Authorities had said his application would be handled like all others, and attributed their relatively speedy approval to “clear information and conditions” surrounding [...]
Protesters demonstrate outside Iranian embassy
February 11, 2010
Police had to restrain demonstrators outside the Iranian embassy in Oslo on Wednesday, after angry opponents of the Iranian government assembled to mark the 31st anniversary of the Iranian revolution. They gathered both on the street across from the embassy and in front of the Norwegian parliament, to express their opposition to the Islamic regime [...]
Protesters target Iranian Embassy
June 22, 2009
Hundreds of protesters demonstrated outside the Iranian Embassy in Oslo through the weekend, demanding an end to the violence in Teheran. They also want Norwegian authorities to react with more than words against the Iranian government. The Norwegian government already has summoned Iran’s top diplomatic representative in Norway to the Foreign Ministry, to file an [...]
