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Muqtada al-Sadr: US nationals should leave Iraq

29 January 2017 11:49 GMT

Influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has called for US nationals to leave Iraq after Trump's order banning Iraqi Muslims from the US.

"It would be arrogance for you to enter freely Iraq and other countries while barring to them the entrance to your country ... and therefore you should get your nationals out,'' Sadr said on his website.

Iraqi Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr delivers a speech during Friday prayers at the Kufa mosque in the centre of the northern Iraqi city of Najaf (AFP)

The Iraqi government has so far declined to comment on the executive order signed by Trump on Friday, which suspends the entry of travelers from Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen for at least 90 days.