This is going to dominate the Iranian Press for some time:
Iran's Judiciary Chief Ayatollah Sadeq Amoli Larijani cautioned that the recent insult to the Holy Quran in the US was part of a new plot hatched by international Zionism against all divine religions.Funny, I am an adherent of the first and only authentic Abrahamic faith, and I don't feel the slightest bit insulted.
"Followers of the Abrahamic religions should be vigilant that a new plot is being hatched by international Zionism. Insult to Quran is (indeed) insult to all the divine religions," Ayatollah Larijani said in a message issued on Tuesday, condemning the desecration of the Muslims' holy book on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US.
Ayatollah Larijani stressed that desecration of the Holy Quran in front of the White House was "a premeditated act in line with Islamophobia and confrontation with Islam-seeking movements of the world oppressed nations", and reiterated that the move was in fact "an insult to all divine and Abrahamic beliefs". [...]
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