TEHRAN – Expediency Council Chairman Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani on Wednesday said the West’s efforts to question the holy Quran have backfired and attracted the attention of more people around the world.

“Today evils of propaganda, Zionism, and global paganism are devising plans and spending money to question Quran but it has raised questions among the world people and has attracted them to Quran,” Rafsanjani said in an indirect reference to a sacrilegious movie recently made by a Dutch lawmaker.
The 15-minute movie, named Fitna, meaning ordeal in Arabic, intersperses images of the Sept. 11 attacks on the United States and ridiculously links the event to quotations from the holy Quran.
Speaking to reporters from the Islamic Quranic News Agency (ICNA), the cleric stated that it is God’s will to keep Quran “eternal and guiding”.
Rafsanjani, who also chairs the Assembly of Experts, urged Iranian journalists and authors to release “correct and defensible” texts and commentaries on Quran to familiarize the world with the reality of the holy book