His parents were both active in a communist movement and decided to flee Iran after visits from the security services.

[8][9][10] In 2012, Riazat was involved in an altercation with neo-Nazis during an anti-racism meeting in Ludvika in which he was physically assaulted.

The row started after Riazat said that he wanted to move out of an apartment building allocated to Riksdag members after discovering SD politician Mattias Karlsson lived in the building and called the SD a Nazi party.

Jomshof responded on Twitter with "Daniel Riazat thus wanted to move away from Mattias Karlsson.

Riazat later claimed Jomshof's comment led to racist abuse on social media.