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TEHRAN, Sept 12, 2012 (AFP)
Iran on Wednesday condemned as “repulsive” a film deemed offensive to Islam that has sparked deadly anti-US protests in Libya and Egypt.
“The Islamic republic of Iran strongly condemns insults to Islamic sanctities and sympathizes with the hurt feelings of the Islamic Umma (nation),” foreign ministry spokesman Ramin Mehmanparast said in a statement.
“The US government’s systematic and continued silence on such repulsive acts is the fundamental reason that they keep happening,” state media reported him as saying.
“The American government has the responsibility to stop this dangerous trend in the spreading of insults to Islamic Umma’s highest sanctities,” Mehmanparast said.
He did not refer to the attacks on US diplomatic compounds in Egypt and Libya in his statement.
US ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three American officials were killed when a mob attacked the American consulate in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi in protest against the film.
The film at the center of the protests was made by an Israeli-American who describes Islam as a “cancer” and depicts the Prophet Mohammed sleeping with women, the Wall Street Journal reported.
Controversial Florida pastor Terry Jones, who has drawn protests in the past for burning the Koran and vehemently opposing the construction of a mosque near Ground Zero in New York, is also promoting the film.
