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TEHRAN, IRAN - JULY 3: Hundreds of Iranians gathered outside the Swedish embassy in Tehran on Monday, July 3, against the desecration of Muslims' holy book of Quran by a far-right extremist in Stockholm last week.Holding banners, and copies of Quran, the protesters chanted slogans against Sweden.Earlier, Iran said it will not be sending its newly appointed ambassador to Sweden, after the term of the previous envoy ended.In a Twitter post on Sunday, Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said the “process of sending the new ambassador” to Sweden has been halted “due to the action of the (Swedish) government in issuing a permit to desecrate the Holy Quran.”The foreign minister further said he held discussions with the newly appointed ambassador to Sweden, Hojatollah Foghani, and that the envoy also presented a report about his diplomatic mandate.The announcement came after Iran’s state news agency IRNA cited an informed source in the Foreign Ministry as saying that Tehran does not intend to send a new envoy to the Scandinavian country.“Although the administrative procedures have been completed to send the new ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran to Sweden, the Foreign Ministry has presently no plans to send the new envoy to this country due to the insult to the Holy Qur’an there,” the source was quoted as saying.During a demonstration allowed by the Swedish law enforcement authorities on Thursday, coinciding with Muslims' holy festival of Eid al-Adha, a 37-year-old man of Iraqi origin, Salwan Momika, was seen tearing up and setting ablaze pages of the Quran.(Footage by Eisa Mohammadi /Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)