tehran (IP) - Iran's President has called on the Swedish government to promptly bring the perpetrators of the heinous act of desecrating the Holy Quran to justice.

Iran PressIran News: "Issuing a statement on condemnation of desecrating the Holy Quran by the Swedish government is not sufficient by any means and the European government should bring the perpetrators of the heinous crime to justice," President Raisi said. 

"As the Leader of the Islamic Revolution (Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei) has emphasized, what happened in Sweden is a conspiratorial and hazardous event and the support laid by the Swedish government behind this criminal act is tantamount to war buildup vis-a-vis the Muslim world," he added.

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A far-right group in Denmark also burned a copy of the Quran in front of the Iraqi embassy in Copenhagen after a Swedish-Iraqi national desecrated the Holy Quran for the second time in the last few weeks on Thursday (July 20).

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