The speaker of the Iranian parliament has called on Muslim nations to boycott Dutch products in response to an anti-Islam film, by the right-wing Dutch lawmaker Geert Wilders, which accuses the Koran of inciting violence. "The best reaction by the Islamic world is to avoid buying products made in those countries that allow themselves to insult Islam," Iran's state broadcaster, IRIB, quoted parliamentary speaker Gholamali Haddadadel as saying. Haddadadel said European countries "would retreat from the path they are taking once they see their economies are in danger." Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party in the Netherlands, launched his short video on the Internet last month, drawing condemnation from many Muslim nations. Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador to Tehran last month to protest against the video and called it "heinous and blasphemous."
Meanwhile, Russia and the United States have once again urged Iran to abide by demands of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) and the UN Security Council concerning its nuclear program. ”We remain adherent to political and diplomatic efforts in the search for a solution, which will guarantee the exclusively peaceful nature of the Iranian nuclear program,” the country’s two presidents, Vladimir Putin and George W. Bush, jointly declared at their summit meeting in Sochi. The declaration continues: “We once again affirm the need for Iranian compliance with the demands of the IAEA [… and] UN Security Council resolutions 1737, 1747 and 1803, which stipulate the complete and verifiable suspension of uranium enrichment research.” The declaration also welcomed “the Russian agreement to supply nuclear fuel to [Iran’s] Bushehr nuclear power plant in Iran and to take away spent nuclear fuel. This step enables Iran to possess a civilian atomic energy potential without enriching uranium and disposing of spent nuclear fuel.”
