Iraq Expels Swedish Ambassador Over Quran Burning In Stockholm

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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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