Iranian TV journalist Mehran Abasian, who has lived in Sweden for the past ten years, has with the help of the Swedish security services (Säpo) gone into hiding after finding out his name is on a secret “death list” said to have been created by the Iranian government.

An order to kill Abasian has allegedly been given to gang criminals in Sweden.

“Säpo is taking the threat very seriously,” he told the Aftonbladet tabloid.

Säpo declined to comment when approached by Aftonbladet, but it has previously confirmed that the Iranian regime is recruiting criminal gangs in Sweden to carry out attacks on Swedish soils, and that it has already thwarted several Iranian planned attacks in Sweden.

It has been widely reported in Swedish media that perpetrators linked to Swedish gang leader Rawa Majid’s Foxtrot network were behind a hand grenade attack on the Israeli embassy in Stockholm in January, allegedly acting on the orders of the Iranian regime.