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According to the BBC,
there was recently a row in the Iraqi parliament over a mobile phone ringtone.
The speaker of the Iraqi parliament (Mr Mashhadani, a Sunni) was being interviewed in the lobby of the parliament when a mobile phone belonging to the bodyguard of another MP (Ms Saadi, a Shia) twice played a religious tune, prompting security staff to attack the bodyguard.
The speaker later turned off cameras and microphones and stormed out of the assembly when the MP demanded an apology.
