Iran, Saudi Arabia condemn Quran protest as Sweden relocates embassy staff from Iraq - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

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Jul 21, 2023

A supporter of the former paramilitary group Hashd al-Shaabi holds the Koran. — A supporter of the former paramilitary group Hashd al-Shaabi holds the Koran during a protest in Baghdad's Tahrir Square on July 20, 2023. Tensions flared between Iraq and Sweden over a Stockholm protest in which a man stomped on the Koran weeks after he burned pages of Islam's holy book, sparking widespread Muslim anger. News that Swedish authorities would permit the protest to proceed on free speech grounds led hundreds of Iraqis to storm and torch Sweden's Baghdad embassy in a chaotic pre-dawn attack. — HMAD AL-RUBAYE/AFP via Getty Images

Women activists of Pakistan Markazi Muslim League take part in a protest rally in Lahore on Jan. 29, 2023.

Middle East condemns, protests Quran burning in Sweden by Iraqi refugee

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Denmark moves to ban Quran burning

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A Shiite Muslim man raises a Koran as he takes part in a mourning ritual in the city of Nasiriyah in Iraq's southern Dhi Qar province eraly on July 22, 2023, during the Muslim month of Muharram in the lead-up to Ashura. Ashura is a 10-day mourning period commemorating the seventh century killing of Prophet Mohammed's grandson Imam Hussein. (Photo by Asaad NIAZI / AFP) (Photo by ASAAD NIAZI/AFP via Getty Images)

Quran burning in Denmark as Egypt, Bahrain summon Sweden diplomats

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Iraqi protesters in Baghdad carry copies of the Koran to denounce the latest desecration of the holy book in Sweden

Saudi Arabia, Iran summon Swedish diplomats over Quran protests

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