27 September 2012 - 20:30

Large groups of foreign students studying in Iran and Iranian lawyers have staged separate demonstrations in front of the UN Office in the capital city, Tehran, to protest against the West’s recent anti-Islam acts.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - On Thursday noon, foreign students studying from Turkey, Iraq, Tajikistan, Bahrain and Syria at the Iranian universities assembled in front of the UN Office in Tehran chanting slogans against the US and Israel.

The students called on the UN to take serious measures against sacrilegious acts.

Earlier the same day, a group of Iranian legal experts, lawyers and activists from different nongovernmental organizations held a similar demonstration outside the UN Office.

The protesters carried banners condemning the recent blasphemous US movie and French cartoons against the Islamic sanctities.

Outrage has grown globally over a US-made movie that insults Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) followed by sacrilegious cartoons published by a French magazine.

The anti-Islam movie triggered days of huge rallies in Muslim countries, as well as in non-Muslim states like Australia, Britain, the United States, France, Belgium, Australia, and some other countries.

Anti-Western sentiments further increased after the French Charlie Hebdo magazine published blasphemous cartoons on Wednesday, September 19.

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