Iran (IMNA) - The source made the remark on Sunday, four days after an Iraqi national living in Sweden destroyed and set on fire many pages of the Qur'an outside Stockholm's main mosque.
Under the guise of free speech regulations, the Swedish police had approved the blasphemous conduct.
The informed source stated, "The Foreign Ministry has now no intentions to send the new envoy to this country owing to the disrespect to the Holy Qur'an there, even though administrative preparations to send the new ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Sweden have been completed.
At the conclusion of the yearly Hajj journey, the sacrilegious Qur'an burning occurred at the same time as the Muslim Eid al-Adha (Feast of Sacrifice). This caused outrage and condemnation throughout the Muslim world.
Sweden's chargé d'affaires in Tehran was summoned by Iran's foreign ministry on Thursday.
The Swedish ambassador was informed at the meeting by the ministry's director-general for Western Europe that the insult was an example of hate speech and a propensity for aggressiveness that had been justified by the misuse of the free speech concept.
The Iranian official continued by saying that Stockholm's silence had given those who had broken one of the most fundamental and evident human rights principles—namely, the concept of respect for religious and divine values—more confidence.
Right-wing extremists from Sweden and Denmark torched a copy of the Qur'an next to the Turkish embassy in Stockholm back in January, which also caused uproar in the Muslim nations.
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