Iran-Iraq Relations

The newly-elected speaker of the Iraqi legislature says he won’t tolerate efforts by anti-Iran groups to use Iraq’s soil to attack the Islamic Republic.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has congratulated the Iraqi nation and parliament on election of Mohammed as the new speaker of the Iraqi parliament.

A group of Iraqi youths from the southern city of Basra have symbolically cleaned up the damages inflicted by a group of attackers on the former building of Iran’s consulate in the city to show the depth of the friendship and brotherhood between the two nations.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has rejected France's concerns over the Islamic Republic's recent missile attacks on terrorists' positions in the Iraqi Kurdistan, blasting Paris for adopting double standards on dealing with terrorism.

The chief commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says the recent retaliatory missile strike against the terrorists based in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region sends a “meaningful” message to the enemies, who imagine they can bully us.

Iran's Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has categorically condemned a White House statement that blamed Iran for the recent unrest in Iraq’s Basra, saying the arson attack on the Iranian consulate in the Iraqi city was a result of US support for extremists.

Iran opened a new consulate in Iraq’s southern city of Basra a few days after the old diplomatic mission was torched in a mob attack.

Iran’s military chief says officials of the Kurdistan Regional Government had been repeatedly warned before the IRGC launched missile strikes against anti-Iran elements in the region, warning Iran will have to repeat the strikes if terrorists continue to stage plots inside Iran.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the Islamic Republic’s recent attacks on terrorists’ positions in the Iraqi Kurdistan were both retaliatory and pre-emptive.

Leader of Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei says Iran’s resistance has foiled plots hatched by the world arrogance against the region, and that was manifested in the US defeats in Syria, Iraq and Lebanon.

Several rockets, said to have been fired from the Iranian territory, hit the headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran (KDP-I) and the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan (PDKI) on Saturday, killing at least 14 and wounding dozens of others from the anti-Iran terrorist groups, Kurdish media reported.

A former US army psychological warfare officer said a recent attack on Iran’s consulate in the city of Basra in Iraq is an attempt to cause a rift between Iran and Iraq, adding that it was most likely carried out by provocateurs paid by mercenary agents from Riyadh and Tel Aviv.

An Iranian lawmaker has rejected “baseless” media reports on Iran’s missile exports to regional states, saying the Islamic Republic has never transferred any missile to any part of the world so far.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has strongly denounced a brutal attack on the country’s consulate in the city of Basra in southern Iraq, saying that the Iraqi envoy to Tehran has been summoned to receive Tehran’s strong protest.

Iran’s Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli has arrived in Baghdad to discuss bilateral border issues and this year’s Arba’een ceremony, the world’s largest religious pilgrimage, in meetings with Iraqi officials.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has hit back at US State Secretary Mike Pompeo for expressing concern over a false report on transfer of Iranian missiles to Iraq.

Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri and his Russian, Iraqi, and Syrian counterparts are planned to hold a joint meeting in the near future, a high-ranking Iranian commander said.

Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi has vehemently rejected a media report that claimed Iran is giving ballistic missiles to Iraq.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Qassemi says the dismissal of the Iraqi national security advisor is a domestic issue of the Arab country, and Iran will not interfere in it.

The number of Iraqi tourists visiting Iran has multiplied in recent months following a drop in the value of the Iranian national currency.

Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has ordered the foreign ministry to get in touch with Iraqi officials for extinguishing the wildfire at Hoor al-Azim lagoon at the Iraqi border, south-west of Iran.

Former Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih says his country’s national interests hinge on secure borders with neighbouring states especially the Islamic Republic of Iran.

A host of Muslim Iraqi clerics from both Shiite and Sunni denominations have issued a public call to counter sanctions slapped on Iran by US President Donald Trump.

A high-ranking Iranian lawmaker says the Iranian government must urge Iraq to pay compensation for damages in the 1980-88 deadly war imposed by the Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein on Iran.

Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi says the recent remarks by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on his country’s compliance with the US sanctions on Iran will have no impact on bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries.