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Iran's envoy to Iraq says the Iraqi government has set a six-month deadline for the Mujahedin-e-Khalq Organization (MKO) to leave Iraq.

Iran's Ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi-Qomi said the Iraqi government had passed a legislation that would order the MKO to leave the country within six months and prohibit it from conducting any activity in Iraq.

“The Iraqi government considers the terrorist group as a factor behind the insecurity in Iraq,” Kazemi-Qomi said.

The Iranian envoy told the Fars news agency that the Iraqi government has formed a committee to expel the terrorist group from Iraq.

Kazemi-Qomi said the presence of the group in Iraq will damage ties between the two countries.

The MKO has been in Iraq's Diyala province since the 1980s. Prior to the US-led war on Iraq, the MKO was supported by former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.