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The Iranian foreign minister, in a letter to the United Nations Secretary General António Guterres, has warned against the continuation of defiling Islamic sanctities.
Iraq has expelled the Swedish ambassador hours after protesters angered by the burning of copies of the holy Quran in the European country, stormed the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, scaling the walls of the compound and setting it on fire.
The demonstrators, angry over Quran burnings in Sweden, protested throughout the night, setting part of the embassy on fire.
Demonstrators angered by the recent burning of a copy of the holy Quran in Sweden, stormed the Swedish embassy in central Baghdad, scaling the walls of the compound and setting it on fire.
Thursday’s demonstration was called to protest the second planned Quran burning in Sweden in weeks by Shi’ite supporters, after an earlier burning ignited widespread controversy.
The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has passed a motion on religious hatred and bigotry in the wake of the desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden that led to widespread outrage and protests across the Muslim world.
Leader of the Yemeni Ansarullah movement Abdul-Malik al-Houthi says the West allows the desecration of the Holy Qur’an in Sweden under the Zionist lobby’s influence.
Some of the protesters burned a rainbow-coloured flag representing the LGBTQ2 community outside the Swedish embassy in Baghdad and chanted “yes, yes to the Qur’an.”
Iran’s judiciary says two people convicted of sacrilege including for burning of copies of the Holy Quran have been executed.
Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Nasser Kanaani has strongly condemned a Danish extremist group’s sacrilegious move to once again insult the holy Quran, especially during the fasting month of Ramadan.