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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Iran summoned Sweden’s charge d’affaires on Sunday to express its condemnation over the desecration of the Quran during Ramadan by a Swedish far-right group. Ramus Paludan, a Danish-Swedish politician who leads the far-right Stram Kurs (“Hard Line”) party, said last week that he burned a copy of the Quran and planned more during a series of rallies in the Nordic country. The Iranian foreign ministry expressed outrage over the reported burning of Islam’s sacred text and urged Sweden to ensure “similar atrocities do not occur again”, reported the Tehran Times. Iran is among a number of Muslim-ma…