Foreign ministry: an investigation has been opened into the incident of burning the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad

INA-  Baghdad

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced the opening of an investigation into the incident of burning the Swedish Embassy in Baghdad.

The ministry said in a statement received by the Iraqi News Agency (INA) on Thursday, "We condemn in the strongest terms the incident of burning the embassy of the kingdom of Sweden in Baghdad, at dawn on Thursday," indicating that this act comes in the context of the attack on diplomatic missions and the threat to their security."

The ministry stressed during the statement that " the Iraqi government has instructed the competent security authorities to urgently investigate and take the necessary security measures in order to uncover the circumstances of the incident and identify the identity of the perpetrators of this act and hold them accountable in accordance with the law ".