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Iran will refrain from sending a new ambassador to Sweden in protest over the burning of a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Sunday. A man tore up and burned a Quran outside Stockholm's central mosque Wednesday, the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holidays. Swedish police charged the man who burned the holy book with agitation against an ethnic or national group. In a newspaper interview, he described himself as an Iraqi refugee seeking to ban it. Iran's foreign ministry summoned Sweden's charge d'affaires Thursda...

Iraq will be taking several measures against the Iraqi refugee who burnt a copy of the Quran outside a mosque in Stockholm, including asking the Swedish authorities to hand him over for trial, the Iraqi Consul General in Jeddah, Mohammad al-Naqshbandi, told Asharq Al-Awsat on Sunday. On the first day of Eid al-Adha, an Iraqi refugee stomped on and burnt pages of the Islamic holy book outside a mosque in Stockholm . Swedish authorities authorized the protest under freedom of expression and assembly.

Saudi Arabia summoned Sweden’s ambassador to Riyadh in protest at the desecration of the Holy Qur’an in the European country.

Iran will refrain from sending a new ambassador to Sweden in protest over the burning of a Koran outside a mosque in Stockholm, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Sunday. A man tore up and burned a Quran outside Stockholm's central mosque Wednesday, the first day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha holidays. Swedish police charged…

Pope Francis condemns the burning of the Quran at a recent incident in Stockholm when two men burned a copy of the Muslim holy book.