THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP):

Iran warned yesterday that an anti-Qu'ran 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".