(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - "Those who have insulted the holy Quran should wait for the worst punishment since Muslims will never forget such a crime," Mamousta Seyed Saeed Hosseini said in Iran's Western city of Sanandaj on Wednesday.
"Muslims will never forgive those who have insulted their religious sanctities and consider desecration of the Holy Quran as an insult to their own character and personality," he added.
Hosseini further said that the only way to confront conspiracies and offenses by enemies of Islam is to maintain unity and solidarity of the Muslim community.
Mamousta Hosseini's comments came after the US soldier set fire to several copies of the Holy Quran at a NATO base in Afghanistan.
Angry Muslims, in Afghanistan and throughout the Muslim world, have staged increasing protests against the US insult to their religion in massive rallies.
At least 25 people have been killed and hundreds have been wounded in protests against the desecration of the Holy Quran in Afghanistan since it first emerged that copies of Quran and religious materials had been thrown into a fire pit used to burn garbage at Bagram Air Field.
Americans have set fire to the copies of the Holy Quran on several occasions thus far.
On Saturday, a top Iranian military commander said the US helplessness in the confrontation against Islam is the real cause underlying the burning of the Muslims' Holy Book by the American soldiers in Afghanistan, and stressed that nothing but burning the White House and hanging the US commanders responsible for this cowardly action can relieve the Muslims' pain.
"The US has committed such an ugly action and burnt Quran because of the heavy slap it has been given by Islam," Commander of Iran's Basij (volunteer) force Brigadier General Mohammad Reza Naqdi said on Saturday.
He stressed Muslims' sensitivity to the crimes underway in Afghanistan by the US forces, and said Muslims do not accept the US apology, because it makes numerous military mistakes and then just asks for the Afghans' apology, and this is not acceptable.
"Nothing but burning the White House can relieve the wound of us, the Muslims, caused by the Burning of Quran in the US," he underscored.
"Their apology can be accepted only by hanging their commanders; hanging their commanders means an apology," he reiterated.
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