Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has said that Sweden has taken a "war stance" against the Islamic world for allowing the desecration of the Holy Quran.

In a message issued by Iranian state media Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said that the insult against the Quran is a bitter, conspiratorial and dangerous incident, which has the most severe punishment in the consensus view of Islamic scholars.

He demanded of Swedish government to hand over the perpetrators to the judicial system of the Muslim countries.