Iran-Iraq Relations

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh has expressed deep concern over the incidents that happened in Iraq in the past few days.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Iraqi National Security Advisor Qassem Al-Araji in Tehran.

Director General of Iran's Ports and Maritime Organization has dismissed media reports that an Iraqi ship has been hijacked in the Iranian waters.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh says Iraq’s top religious authority Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has called for the removal of sanctions against nations in his recent meeting with the pontifex in Najaf.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says Tehran is against any kind of foreign intervention in Iraq’s internal affairs and considers it detrimental to the Arab country and the entire region.

Iran and Iraq have drawn up a draft memorandum of understanding (MOU) on security cooperation between the two countries.

Iran's Ministry of Foreign Affairs has summoned the Turkish ambassador to Tehran to protest at the Turkish interior minister's "unacceptable" remarks about the presence of PKK elements in Iran.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif sat down with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein in Tehran where they discussed the different dimensions of political and economic cooperation as well as border exchanges between the two countries.

The secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council says Iran and other countries fighting terror will not allow “puppet Takfiri terrorism” to rear its ugly head again in the region.

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman has categorically rejected allegations ascribing the Monday night's rocket attack on the city of Erbil in the Iraqi Kurdistan region to Iran, calling on the Baghdad government to prosecute the perpetrators.

Iranian Judiciary Chief Ebrahim Raisi has sat down with Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi in Baghdad.

The Iranian judiciary chief says Tehran’s vengeance for the US assassination of top Iranian General Qassem Soleimani is “close at hand.”

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has expressed Tehran’s opposition to any foreign interference in the international affairs of Iraq, describing it as detrimental to the whole region.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein that the US forces must be expelled from the Arab country in reaction to the assassination of Iranian anti-terror commander Qassem Soleimani and his Iraqi comrade Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein has arrived in the Iranian capital of Tehran for talks with high-ranking Iranian officials, the Arab country's foreign ministry announced.

Iran’s First Vice-President Es’haq Jahangiri says the construction of the railway between Iran’s Shalamcheh and Iraq’s Basra will facilitate transit of cargos from China to the Mediterranean.

Iran says it will help restore the Persian archaeological masterpiece Taq Kasra (also known as the Arch of Ctesiphon), located in modern-day Iraq, only if Baghdad officially asks Tehran to do so.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has condemned two terrorist explosions in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, which killed or wounded a number of innocent Iraqi civilians.

Iran and Iraq have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) on expansion of mutual economic cooperation.

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has highlighted Tehran and Baghdad’s determination to raise the value of annual trade exchanges to $20 billion, pointing to the major role that the private sectors and a joint investment fund could play in working towards that goal.

Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman has criticized the country's neighbours, including Iraq, for abstaining from voting against a US push at the United Nations to revive a committee charged with slapping sanctions against Iran.

The Iranian energy minister says Iran and Iraq have reached an agreement under which Baghdad will pay for Iran’s energy sales to Iraq in euros in a bid to mitigate the problems caused by the US sanctions.

لید این خبر به این شکل ویرایش بشه Iran’s government spokesman says the country has always condemned any adventurism in Iraq and attaches great importance to the Arab country’s sovereignty.

Iranian Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian has discussed Tehran-Baghdad cooperation in separate meetings with senior Iraqi officials.

Iran’s Minister of Cooperatives, Labour and Social Welfare Mohammad Shariatmadari says Tehran and Baghdad have delineated a joint five-year cooperation road map.