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Gavin Grey: Europe Correspondent on the Swedish authorities accusing Iranian Intelligence of sending a hacked mass text · Early Edition with Ryan Bridge

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  Speaker 1: Kevin Gray is a UK europe correspondent. Kevin Sweden is
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  Speaker 1: upset with Iranian intelligence. What's going on?
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  Speaker 2: Yes, you may remember the story about twelve months ago
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  Speaker 2: when fifteen thousand texts were sent to different Swedes basically
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  Speaker 2: saying that they wanted revenge against Quran burners. Now, what
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  Speaker 2: had happened was that Sweden's government condemned a number of
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  Speaker 2: people burning the Quran and police tried to ban them,
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  Speaker 2: but the courts allowed the burning of Kuran in Sweden
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  Speaker 2: under freedom of expression laws. Lots of Muslims were not happy. Indeed,
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  Speaker 2: Sweden's embassy in Iraq was set alight by protesters. Then
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  Speaker 2: all these texts started arriving in people's emails, on people's
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  Speaker 2: phones rather saying that they should consider revenge against the
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  Speaker 2: Qoran burners. Well, now, after all this work, Sweden's security
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  Speaker 2: service SAPPO said these test was sent by the Iranian
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  Speaker 2: intelligence service connected to the Revolutionary Guards and they had
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  Speaker 2: basically managed it in some way to get hold of
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  Speaker 2: the Swedish company's SMS service, takeover passwords, user names and
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  Speaker 2: other tools before sending a message to private individuals. And
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  Speaker 2: the message was quote those who insulted the Quran must
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  Speaker 2: be punished for their work. Can the Swedes do anything
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  Speaker 2: about it? No, because although they think they know who
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  Speaker 2: is behind it, I'm afraid there is no extradition treaty,
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  Speaker 2: so there won't be any punishment for those they suspect.
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  Speaker 1: Gevin, we have a brief moment to talk about the
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  Speaker 1: police in Switzerland making a couple of erasi in relation
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  Speaker 1: to a suicide pod.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, very unusual. So this suicide pod is basically one
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  Speaker 2: which allows people to operate it on their own and
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  Speaker 2: end their own life without medical supervision. You basically step
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  Speaker 2: into this pod and it will kill you. As I said,
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  Speaker 2: without medical supervision, you can do it all on your own. Now,
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  Speaker 2: Switzerland does allow our assisted dying, but there has been
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  Speaker 2: a lot of debate about the Sarco pod. Indeed, some
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  Speaker 2: say it's not safe. The design of it almost glamorizes suicide.
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  Speaker 2: But now we learn there has been what we think
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  Speaker 2: is the first suicide in a Sarco pod on the
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  Speaker 2: border of Switzerland, and it is being said that could
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  Speaker 2: be the very very first case of its kind. We're
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  Speaker 2: not yet being told the identity of the person that's
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  Speaker 2: believed to take in their own life.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Gevin, thank you for that. Givin Gray are
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  Speaker 1: UK europe correspondent.
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