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Egyptian-American political analyst Magdi Khalil said in a video posted on July 29, 2023 to his YouTube channel that the recent incidents in Sweden in which Iraqi refugee Salwan Momika burnt copies of the Quran were part of an Iranian ploy to escalate tension in order to force the release of a former senior Iranian official Hamdi Nouri, who is convicted in Sweden for war crimes. Khalil said that Momika, a Christian Iraqi expat who had led a militia in Iraq that was subordinate to the IRGC Qods Force and the PMU, was acting at the behest of Iran, and he pointed out that it is only Iran-led Shi'ites who are being "hysterical" over this incident.
Nouri was convicted in Weden for his participation in the "death commission" that was responsible for executing thousands of members of the MEK and other opposition organizations following a fatwa by Ayatollah Khomeini in 1988. It is notable that current Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was also a member of this "death commission."
Magdi Khalil: "In the summer of 1988, Iran executed thousands of Iranians, who belonged to the Mojahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MEK), and to Iranian leftist organizations.
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"Khomeini issued a death fatwa, in which he said that the MEK members were fighting Allah and that the leftists were apostates, which necessitates the death sentence in their cases. Following this fatwa, Khomeini established a killing commission, which later would be named 'the death commission.'
"This commission executed thousands of people, who were shot or decapitated with swords.
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"That commission was headed by shari'a judge Hossein Ali Nayyeri, and included Tehran's Prosecutor-General Morteza Eshraghi, his deputy, Ebrahim Raisi, and his assistant, Hamid Nouri. Current Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was [in that commission], which also included Mostafa Pour-Mohammadi, who represented the Ministry of Intelligence.
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"The new development is that one member of this commission – Hamid Nouri – perhaps forgot or did not care that he had committed a crime, or thought that he was too important to be arrested... He traveled in 2019 to Sweden.
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"(Nouri was arrested) in Sweden and sentenced to life in prison, for perpetrating crimes against humanity, as part of the death commission. His sentence was delivered in July 2022.
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"The truth is that the entire Iranian regime was standing trial there, and naturally, it was a trial of Ebrahim Raisi, who was a leading member of the death commission.
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"Therefore, Iran has gone berserk, since July 2022, and it has exerted full pressure on Sweden to release Hamid Nouri and end this affair.
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"On the first day of Eid Al-Adha, an Iraqi refugee in Sweden, called Salwan Momika, put pork inside a Quran and burned it. Momika was a Christian who became an atheist.
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"[TV show host] Brother Rachid conducted a full interview with this Momika, who did not deny that he had had a political party and a militia. He said that his militia only had 18 members, but still, any militia that operated back then [in Iraq] was sponsored by Qasem Soleimani and the Popular Mobilization Forces.
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"Iran wants the escalation against Sweden. It wants to extort Sweden, in order to force the release of Hamid Nouri. Iran does not really care about the Quran. The Quran has been burned several times. How come Iran has gone into such hysterics this time?
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"The entire hysteria about the burning of the Quran came [this time] from the Shi'ites – from Hassan Nasrallah, from Shi'ites here, from Shi'ites there, from Iran, from Iraqi Shi'ites... Even the Sunnis in Iraq did nothing. The major hysteria this time came from the Shi'ites and was generated by Iran."
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