Iraq has told Sweden's ambassador in Baghdad to leave Iraqi territory, after the Swedish embassy was stormed by hundreds of supporters of Iraqi Shia leader Muqtada al-Sadr at around 1am on Thursday.

Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani has also directed the foreign ministry to withdraw the Iraqi charge d'affairs from its embassy in the Swedish capital, Stockholm. 

Bassim al-Awadi, an Iraqi government spokesman, said the Swedish ambassador was being asked to leave "in response to the repeated permission of the Swedish government to burn the Noble Quran, insult Islamic sanctities and burn the Iraqi flag".

The Iraqi Media and Communications Commission (CMC) has also suspended the business license of Ericsson, the Swedish telecommunications company, as the fallout continued. 

Sadr's supporters called the demonstration on Thursday to protest a second planned burning of the Quran in Sweden, just weeks after Salwan Momika, a 37-year-old Iraqi man living in Sweden, burnt an Iraqi flag and desecrated the holy book outside the largest mosque in Stockholm.

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