Police officers intervene after people's reaction as demonstrators burn the Koran (not pictured) outside Stockholm's central mosque in Stockholm, Sweden June 28, 2023. TT News Agency/Stefan Jerrevang/via REUTERS ATTENTION EDITORS - THIS IMAGE WAS PROVIDED BY A THIRD PARTY. SWEDEN OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN SWEDEN.
The Iranian government has refused to send a new ambassador to Sweden after a protester burned a Quran outside a mosque in the capital, Stockholm.
An Iraqi-born refugee had burnt the Muslim holy book outside a mosque on the first day of Eid al-Adha.
Swedish police charged him with agitation against an ethnic or national group last week.
Iran’s foreign minister, Hossein Amirabdollahian, blamed the government for granting him the protest permit.
Plans to burn copies of the Quran have sparked riots in Sweden in recent months.
Police had rejected similar protest applications recently, but courts then ruled that they should be allowed on freedom of expression grounds.
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