Iran urges West to take action on anti-Islam film
Iran`s top leader urged the West to show it respects Muslims by blocking a film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad.
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Tehran: Iran`s top leader urged the West today to show it respects Muslims by blocking a film that mocks the Prophet Muhammad and has touched off rage across the Islamic world.
State TV quoted Ayatollah Ali Khamenei as saying Western leaders must prove they are not "accomplices" in a "big crime."
Such an appeal falls into the major cultural divide over the film. US officials say they cannot limit free speech and Google Inc refuses to do a blanket ban on the YouTube video clip. This leaves individual countries putting up their own blocks.
Separately, Iran`s Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi said Iran will send a protest letter on the film to the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
Iranians have staged several demonstrations against the film, but none have been violent. Crowds gathered last week in front of the Swiss Embassy, which looks after American diplomatic interests in Iran.
A semi-official religious foundation also increased a reward it had offered for the killing of British author Salman Rushdie to USD 3.3 million from USD 2.8 million over his book
"The Satanic Verses," which was considered blasphemous by Iranian leaders.
A 1989 fatwa, or religious edict, was issued against Rushdie by Iran`s late leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, but Iranian authorities have since distanced themselves from the order.
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