Iranian FM: If Rushdie or Danish cartoonist had only been killed, folks would know better than to burn Koran.
Irna headline: “Mottaki warns of outrageous plan of American priest”
Condemning the American priest’s disgusting bid, the Iranian foreign minister said that if descisive measures had been taken against apostate author Salam Rushdi or the European caricaturist who had insulted the prophet of Islam under the guise of freedom of speech, we would have never witnessed reoccurrence of such sacreligious acts.
Warning those masterminding such conspiracies, he said there is no doubt that the failed policies of former US president George W. Bush to fan the flames of sectarian war following the September 11th incident, will be responded by the Muslim world and true followers of other divine religions, Mottaki underlined.
The US officials are duty-bound to safeguard the principled rights of American Muslims and try to stop the spread of such heinous acts, he said.
The recent move is now regarded as a plot hatched by the Zionist regime to make good on its humiliating defeats in its struggle with Muslims, Mottaki underlined.