[Iran Press] Iran's diminutive President Mahmoud Short Round Ahmadinejad has denounced the desecration of the Holy Qur'an as a provocative act and a Zionist plot.
"While this is an intricately-hatched plot [by the Zionists], without a doubt it failed and its repercussions will come back to haunt its criminal masterminds," Ahmadinejad said in a meeting with the Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, Mar Dinkha IV, on Wednesday.
"This sacrilegious act has not jut been committed against Mohammedans, it is rather an insult to all humanity and all followers of divine faiths," the presidents official website quoted him as saying.
Ahmadinejad said the Zionists, "who have no religion, are merely a racist political faction and lie about being the followers of Moses [are behind the incident]."
"Without a doubt if the enemies of religion are given a chance they will even raze Churches which preach true spirituality in the US," said the Iranian president.
Mar Dinkha IV expressed regret over the unfortunate Qur'an burning incident and said, "While this insulting act appeared to hav been committed by Christian[s], it will not damage the long-standing and historical Mohammedan-Christian coexistence -- in particular in the Islamic Theocratic Republic of Iran where Christians have [for years] lived amicably alongside Mohammedan Iranians."
While Florida pastor Terry Jones called off his Qur'an-burning plans in the face of fierce international condemnation, anti-Islam protesters in the US tore pages, and burned copies of the Mohammedan holy book on the ninth anniversary of the 9/11 attacks in the US.
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