The protest took place after police in Sweden reportedly granted an application for a demonstration to be held on Thursday outside the Iraqi embassy in Stockholm - during which two demonstrators planned to burn a copy of the Koran and the Iraq flag.

Iraqi Protesters storm Swedish Embassy in Baghdad ahead of planned Quran burning in Stockholm. 

Protesters scale a wall at the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad Thursday, July 20, 2023. Protesters angered by the planned burning of a copy of the Quran stormed the embassy early Thursday, breaking into the compound and lighting a small fire.