Jimmie Åkesson, leader of the Sweden Democrats party, supports the US and Israeli attacks against Iran – and would like to see more of the regime’s leaders eliminated through continued bombing.

– I believe this is the only way to achieve political change within any reasonable time frame, he claims.

During an appearance at Almedalen Week (an annual Swedish political forum) in Visby, he commented to Swedish news agency TT about the American bombing of Iranian nuclear facilities.

– It has both positive and negative aspects. And we’ll have to see what happens. But fundamentally, I think it’s good.

According to the Sweden Democrats leader, “evil must be fought with harsh measures”, and he assesses that the Iranian regime has been significantly weakened by the attacks.

Jimmie Åkesson (SD) framför ett tydligt och kraftfullt ställningstagande när det gäller Sveriges relation till Israel och synen på den iranska regimen. Han uttrycker ett starkt stöd för Israel som en demokratisk rättsstat i en konfliktfylld region, samtidigt som han markerar… pic.twitter.com/zckWkb5wYK

— Nima Rostami (@Nima_Ros) June 25, 2025

His hope is that the bombings will continue – but with a focus on eliminating leading representatives of the Iranian state – the same approach advocated by Netanyahu’s government and Israel’s military.

– The best outcome would be to follow through with this to achieve change in Iran after almost 50 years of oppression.

– Now they have primarily destroyed these nuclear facilities, which is of course very good. But certainly, continued bombing, continuing to eliminate leaders of this Islamist regime, that’s a very effective way to bring about change.

“Israel is defending itself”

Regarding the ongoing genocide in Gaza, Åkesson also gives his support to Netanyahu and Israel’s actions, claiming that the Israeli regime is acting in a way that is directly necessary and “doing what needs to be done”.

– Of course, this should be done within the framework of international law. Israel isn’t perfect, they’ve surely made mistakes in various contexts, but overall, the right to self-defense is completely reasonable, he says and continues:

– They’re defending themselves in a war not against a state but against a terrorist organization that doesn’t follow any international laws of war.

“Seems more loyal to Israel than to Sweden”

However, not everyone is impressed by Åkesson’s nearly unlimited support for Israel, and Gustav Kasselstrand, leader of the nationalist party Alternative for Sweden, writes on X that “Åkesson seems more loyal to Israel than to Sweden”.

“Now he wants to see a new globalist war in the Middle East, this time against a sovereign state like Iran – which hasn’t attacked another country throughout its existence. But the regime must be changed as it disturbs American-Israeli interests in the region, and it should preferably be done with bombs; as if we don’t have enough horrific examples when this was done in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, and Libya”, he notes.

Åkessons Almedalstal är verkligen en uppvisning i självförnedring inför Israellobbyn. Åkesson tycks mer lojal till Israel än till Sverige.

Nu vill han se ett nytt globalistiskt krig i Mellanöstern, denna gång mot en suverän stat som Iran – som inte attackerat ett annat land… pic.twitter.com/aqYN6h4wid

— Gustav Kasselstrand (AFS) (@gustavkassel) June 24, 2025

Kasselstrand, who has a background as chairman of the Sweden Democrats’ youth organization, also points out that the wars and regime change operations in the Middle East have almost without exception resulted in massive refugee flows and Muslim mass immigration to Europe – phenomena that the Sweden Democrats themselves claim they want to stop.

“How can it be ‘fighting Islamism’ to start a new devastating war with gigantic refugee flows of Muslims entering Europe?” he asks.