Iran Puts Off Sending New Ambassador To Sweden
Date
7/21/2023 7:08:07 PM
(MENAFN- Kuwait News Agency (KUNA)) TEHRAN, July 21 (KUNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian said Friday his country would neither send a new ambassador to, nor receive a new ambassador from, Sweden, for the time being due to repeated desecration of Holy Quran.
The term in office of the incumbent Swedish ambassador in Tehran has expired and Tehran would not exchange ambassadors with Stockholm unless the latter adopts measure to protect the sanctity of the Holy Quran, Amirabdollahian said in statements to the state-run TV.
The exchange of new ambassador is conditional on Stockholm brining to book the person/s involved in the repeated despicable act, he made clear.
The minister made the comments one day after the Swedish police allowed an extremist to tear pages of the Holy Quran and burn them in front of the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm.
The Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called in Sweden Ambassador in Tehran Mattias Lentz in protest at the act which came less than a month after a similar desecration of the holy book outside Stockholm's central mosque on the first day of the Muslim Eid Al-Adha holidays. (end)
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