Irans Armé/försvarsmakt [sammanslagen tråd./Mod]

So it was only natural that when Iran started shopping for speedboats in 1981, it turned to Boghammar, whose prize-winning shipyard is nestled on a heavily forested island near Stockholm.

The $10-million Iranian order for 50 of its RL-118 and RL-130 boats was the biggest ever for Boghammar, a privately owned company with 15 employees and average annual revenues of $3 million.

But six years later, what was once considered the company's good fortune has emerged as a national scandal with reports that Iranian Revolutionary Guards are using the boats as their key weapon in a guerrilla campaign against U.S.-flagged tankers and Navy ships in the gulf.

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'Swedish Iran boats in big manuever,' was the caption under a huge front-page photo in Thursday's edition of the conservative Svenska Dagbladet, the country's largest newspaper. On July 28, U.S. Embassy official Ronald Kuchel took up the matter with the government.

Suddenly, Sweden, home of the Nobel Peace Prize and avatar of non-violence as a method of settling international disputes, was wrestling with an arms-sales scandal, its third in a year.