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Iraq Allegedly Threatened To Sever Diplomatic Ties with Sweden

 Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani on Thursday ordered the withdrawal of the Iraqi attorney general in Stockholm and the expulsion of the Swedish ambassador to Iraq, the Iraqi media reported. 

On Thursday, the Iraqi government released a blistering statement, threatening to terminate diplomatic ties with Sweden if the Quran burnings continued. 

The Iraqi government claimed in a statement that it had warned the Swedish government of its determination to terminate diplomatic ties if the Quran burning occurred again. 

The decision was reached during an emergency meeting of senior military and security officials on Thursday morning, led by Iraq's prime minister, to address the Swedish government's approval to be granted to a person to subsequently burn sacred books in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. During the discussion, the burning of the Swedish embassy in Iraq was also highlighted. 

The conference denounced the cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's supporters for torching the Swedish embassy, calling it a security lapse that must be addressed promptly, and emphasizing that those responsible for the embassy's security must be held accountable. 

According to AFP, Iraqi demonstrators torched the Swedish embassy in Baghdad on Thursday morning ahead of plans to burn Qurans in Sweden. Swedish authorities allowed the meeting outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm late Thursday. 

According to AFP, the organizers wanted to burn the Iraqi flag and copies of the Quran there. 

Salwan Momika, an Iraqi immigrant living in Sweden, burned a Quran outside Stockholm's main mosque on June 28. 

As a result, Kuwait, Iraq, Morocco, and the United Arab Emirates summoned Sweden's envoys. During protests in front of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad, Iraq also sought Momika's extradition so she could be prosecuted under Iraqi law. 

Sweden hard received harsh criticism for permitting the burning of the Quran outside a mosque during the important Islamic festival of Eid al-Adha.




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