Iran Press/ Iran news: In a Twitter post, Hossein Amir-Abdollahian, Iran's top diplomat said the entire Islamic world "strongly condemns the insult to the holy books and the Holy Quran."
Rebuking the Swedish authorities, Amir-Abdollahian said allowing the desecration of holy sanctities and the Islamic holy book "without any justification" is "not acceptable.”
During a demonstration allowed by Swedish police on Wednesday, which coincided with the holy Muslim festival of Eid al-Adha, a 37-year-old man named Salwan Momika was seen tearing up and setting ablaze pages of the Quran.
The incident took place outside the Stockholm Central Mosque and has drawn widespread condemnation worldwide.
The foreign minister said allowing such acts of blasphemy in the name of "democracy and freedom" only "encourages terrorism and extremism."
He hastened to warn that "its smoke, before going in any direction, will hit the eyes of the West."
Earlier on Thursday, Iran's Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani in a statement called the incident in Sweden “provocative, ill-considered and unacceptable." 219
