Iran’s Khamenei says Sweden in ‘battle-array’ over Koran desecrations

Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday that people who desecrate the Koran should face the “most severe punishment” and
Sweden has “gone into battle-array for war on the Muslim world” by supporting those responsible.
Protests have raged across Iran and Iraq after Sweden allowed the burning of the Koran under rules protecting free speech. Protesters in Iraq set alight the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday.
An Iraqi immigrant to Sweden burned a Koran outside a Stockholm mosque last month. Protesters in Sweden kicked and partially destroyed a book they said was the Koran outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm on Thursday, but did not burn it as they had threatened to do, Reuters witnesses said.
Swedish officials have deplored the acts but said they cannot prevent them.
Iran’s state media reported that Khamenei had demanded Sweden hand over those responsible for prosecution in Islamic countries.