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Protests in Iran over Danish video
Iranian soldiers tried to put out a fire at the Danish Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday after hundreds of Iranians set fire to the building in protest of a video showing right wing Danish youths mocking Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
- Agencies
- Published: 00:00 October 11, 2006
- Some 200 Iranians attempted to set fire to the Danish embassy building in Teheran to protest a new video about Prophet Mohammad.
- Image Credit: Reuters
Tehran: Hundreds of Iranians set fire to the Danish Embassy in Tehran on Tuesday, in protest of a video showing right wing Danish youths mocking Prophet Mohammad (PBUH).
Some 232 Iranian lawmakers on Tuesday called on the government to sever economic relations with Denmark.
Top cleric Ayatollah Nasser Makarem Shirazi called on all Muslim states to break ties with Denmark.
The video was shot during a summer camp of the youth wing of the Danish People's Party, outspoken critics of immigration, especially from Muslim countries.
One member was presenting a cartoon showing a camel with the head of Muhammad and beer cans for humps. A second drawing showed a bearded man wearing a turban with a plus sign and a bomb that equaled a nuclear mushroom cloud.
In Indonesia, Foreign Minister Hassan Wirajuda, spoke to his Danish counterpart Per Stig Moeller about his concern that the insults to the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) had “happened again and again."
He added that Moeller "expressed his regret and said the Danish Government disagreed with (the video) and rejected the tasteless acts."
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