FOX NEWS: THE HAGUE, Netherlands — Iran warned on Tuesday that an anti-Quran film by a maverick* right-wing Dutch lawmaker would "breed violence" and said the Dutch government could ban it based on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Geert Wilders, leader of the Freedom Party, has said he plans to air the film this month, though no date has been set. The government says it is powerless to ban the film before seeing its contents and is wary of breaching Wilders' right to freedom of expression.
Iran's Deputy Foreign Minister Mehdi Safari cited the 1948 Human Rights declaration's 29th article that individual rights may be limited in the interest of respecting other people's freedoms and "meeting the just requirements of morality, public order and the general welfare in a democratic society."
Wilders, known for his anti-Islam rhetoric, says the film will depict the Quran as a "fascist book" that can be used by extremists to incite violence and which preaches the oppression of women and homosexuals.
"Freedom of speech is not unlimited," Tehran's ambassador to the Netherlands, Bozorgmehr Ziaran told a small group of reporters at the Iranian Embassy. The film, he added, "would just breed violence."
Wilders, Ziaran said, "is not a peacemaker, Mr. Wilders is a warmonger." Iran Warns Dutch Lawmaker's Anti-Koran Film Will 'Breed Violence' >>>
* Have you noticed that whenever the MSM refer to Geert Wilders they always refer to him as “maverick”? And if they don't use the term "maverick", they use some other disparaging term instead.
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