We will sever ties if the Quran is burned again

In an escalation that comes shortly after the burning of the Swedish embassy in Baghdad during a demonstration that took place in protest against an activist’s intention to burn a copy of the Qur’an in Stockholm, Iraq threatened today, Thursday, to “sever diplomatic relations with Sweden” if the Qur’an was burned again on its soil.

The office of the Prime Minister, Muhammad Shia’a al-Sudani, said in a statement issued after a security meeting that the Iraqi government “informed the Swedish government yesterday, through diplomatic channels, to go to sever diplomatic relations with Sweden in the event of a repeat of the incident of burning the Holy Qur’an on its soil,” according to the Iraqi News Agency “INA”.