Mosque elders have condemned a 'deplorable' disturbance outside an Islamic centre in which a man was injured and graffiti was daubed onto the walls of the building and onto a car parked outside. The Manchester Council of Mosques said they believed it to be an 'isolated incident linked to the ongoing situation in Iran'.
In a statement to the Manchester Evening News , the council said it does not believe 'there is a wider risk of such incidents escalating to the majority of mosques and Islamic centres in the city'.
The congregation of the Manchester Islamic Centre, on Sidney Street off Oxford Road in the city centre, is the Shia community with many of Iranian heritage, elders said.
