Iran Press/ Iran News: On June 28, 2023, Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant residing in Sweden, burned a copy of the Holy Quran during the Islamic Eid al-Adha festival outside Stockholm's central mosque.
The Swedish police had granted a permit for the demonstration after a Swedish court ruling that allowed it on the grounds of freedom of expression.
In the Sunday evening phone conversation, the Iranian foreign minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian praised the Kuwaiti government's stances in condemning the insults to the Quran and called for holding an emergency meeting of the foreign ministers of the member states of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) to send a powerful message to prevent such offenses.
Salem Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Minister of Foreign Affairs of Kuwait, for his part, welcomed his Iranian counterpart's proposal and reiterated the strong condemnation of any insult to the Holy Quran and Islamic holy sanctities. 219
