Iraqi Protesters Storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad
July 20, 2023
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as posted by the channelProtesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran by an Iraqi man in Sweden stormed the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad Thursday, overrunning the diplomatic compound and starting a fire.
Protesters stormed the diplomatic post early Thursday, waving flags and signs showing the influential Iraqi Shiite cleric and political leader Muqtada al-Sadr, and set a small fire.
The attack on the embassy came ahead of a planned burning of the Quran in Stockholm by an Iraqi asylum-seeker who burned a copy of the Islamic holy book during a previous demonstration last month.
Following the incident, the Swedish Embassy announced it had closed to visitors, without specifying when it would reopen.
Iraq’s prime minister cut diplomatic ties with Sweden in protest over the desecration of the Islamic holy book in response.
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