“Although administrative procedures to appoint a new ambassador to Sweden have been completed, the process of sending him (the ambassador) has been postponed due to the Swedish government issuing a permit to desecrate the Holy Quran,” Hossein Amirabdollahian said on Twitter at the sunday.
The Koran burning took place outside Stockholm’s mosque.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs does not provide information on how long the measure will be maintained.
The relationship between Sweden and Iran has been cold in the past, for example after the Swedish-Iranian Habib Chaab was executed in Iran in May and after the Swedish sentence against the Iranian citizen Hamid Noury.
He was convicted last year of murder and violations of international law in connection with the executions of political prisoners in Iran in the summer of 1988. Iran has condemned the sentence.