During Stockholm session, the Swedish Prime Minister and US Secretary of State expressed concern over destructive role of the Iranian regime in the region and asked for more diplomatic pressure on that regime.
In a joint interview with Swedish daily Dagenz Nyheter, Prime Minister Reinfeldt said: we had a discussion about how we could put diplomatic pressure on Iran not to have a negative role, first of all, in Iraq, but not a negative role in the whole of the region.
US Secretary of State, Condoleezza Rice said: But the United States has made clear that it will defend its interests and it will defend the interests of its allies, and that the Iranians need to understand that we have longstanding interests in the Gulf. They go back to Franklin Roosevelt. And we have important allies in the Gulf, and we will defend our interests and theirs. But we believe that the best way to defend not just our interests, our allies’ interests, but, frankly, those of the international community, is through the approach that we are currently taking. We will confront Iran, for instance, in Iraq when they engage in training or equipping militias that are endangering our soldiers. We will confront them in Iraq. When we see that they are trying to acquire technologies that could lead to a nuclear weapon, we will confront them through the two-track approach that we are using, UN Security Council sanctions as well as offering them a different path. And we will make it harder for them to fish in troubled waters by strengthening the Lebanese Government, the young democracy there.

Secretary Rice added: we should be doing everything that we can to even – to deny it in even greater fashion access to the international financial system for ill-gotten gains. And so whether it is through UN Security Council resolutions that insist on vigilance in terms of export credits for Iran, or whether it is through the designations that the United States Treasury has done of the IRGC and the Qods Force and a number of Iranian banks which are engaged in transferring funds around from activities for terrorism or to activities for terrorism or for proliferation, we should be doing everything that we can.