Iraq has ordered the Swedish ambassador to leave and decided to withdraw its envoy from Stockholm for permitting Koran-burning protest there, a government spokesman said Thursday.
Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani "instructed the Swedish ambassador in Baghdad to leave Iraqi territory", his office said in a statement.
It said the decision was "prompted by the Swedish government's repeated permission for the burning of the holy Koran, insulting Islamic sanctities and the burning of the Iraqi flag".
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