Iran summons amabssador over 'Fitna'

Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador today to protest against a film by a Dutch member of parliament that accuses…

Iran's Foreign Ministry summoned the Dutch ambassador today to protest against a film by a Dutch member of parliament that accuses the Koran of inciting violence, state radio said.

A senior diplomat from Slovenia, which holds the rotating presidency of the European Union, was also summoned, it added.

Iran has denounced the film by Geert Wilders as "heinous" and called on European governments to block any further showing.

"Following the propagation of the insulting and anti-Islamic film by the radical Dutch parliamentarian, the Dutch ambassador and the Slovenian charge d'affaires were summoned to the Foreign Ministry," state radio said.

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Mr Wilders, leader of the anti-immigration Freedom Party, launched his short video on the Internet on Thursday, prompting an al Qaeda-linked Web site to call for his death and attacks on Dutch soldiers in Afghanistan.

Fitna- an Arabic term sometimes translated as "strife" - intersperses images of the September 11 attacks on the United States and Islamist bombings with quotations from the Koran.