Iran says its Embassy in the Swiss capital of Bern has been attacked by an unidentified assailant while people were protesting the result of the June 12 presidential election outside the building.

Swiss police said protesters were staging a demonstration outside the Iranian Embassy in Bern on Monday when an unidentified assailant threw a hand-made Molotov cocktail, also known as the petrol bomb or gasoline bomb, inside the building.

The police have begun investigating the incident.

The attack comes as earlier on Friday a similar attack happened outside the Iranian Embassy in Sweden.

According to Swedish police, one of the Embassy personnel sustained serious injuries in the attack.

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