The Iraqi parliament speaker Mohammed al-Halbusi has met with Iran's Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) secretary Admiral Ali Shamkhani in Tehran on Wednesday.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi said on Wednesday that the new Iraqi parliament can play an effective role in the economic and social synergy of Iran and Iraq as before.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says counterrevolutionary elements and those who support partition of Iran should not be allowed to find a safe haven in Iraq to threaten the Islamic Republic.
Speaker of Iran’s Parliament Mohammad Baqer Qalibaf says the country supports the Iraqi government and parliament and hopes to develop deep ties with Baghdad.
The Iranian state-run newspaper Iran has in an editorial criticized the Iraqi government for failing to keep its word to waive visa for Iranian pilgrims willing to visit the Arab country’s religious sites.
Iraq’s Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi has assigned a working group to make necessary coordination to resolve technical problems of Iraqi power plants that work with Iranian gas.
Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi has said the Islamic Republic wants a strong and united Iraq and it hopes to see a political breakthrough there as a result of cooperation and solidarity among mainstream political factions in the country. Raisi made those comments in a meeting with visiting Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein on Thursday.
Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian says a primary agreement has been reached to release Iran’s assets that have been frozen in a foreign bank due to the US sanctions.
Iraq’s electricity minister says the country has not reached an agreement with Arab countries of the Persian Gulf region and will need to import natural gas from Iran for the coming years.
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi has told his Iraqi counterpart Barham Saleh that the Islamic Republic of Iran believes the slightest insecurity in Iraq will be harmful to the whole region.
An informed Iranian source has denied a report by Saudi media that Admiral Ali Shamkhani, Iran’s security chief, is going to visit Iraq for talks with the country’s officials on ways of resolving the current crisis over the election of the Iraqi president.
The official newspaper of the Iranian government says the country should respond “with the necessary level of seriousness” to any threats from the Iraqi soil.
The chairman of the Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber of Commerce says in the first 11 months of this Persian year, the value of Iran's exports to Iraq reached $8.2 billion, and exports to the country are expected to exceed $9 billion by the end of the year.
Iran is participating in International Exhibition of Security, Defense and War Industries in Baghdad along with 13 other countries and more than 60 companies.
An Iranian customs spokesman says in the first 11 months of this year, more than 28 million tons of goods worth over 8.2 billion dollars were exported from Iran to Iraq, which translates to a 17% increase in weight and a 20% increase in value compared to the same period last year.
Iran's Interior Ministry has announced that Covid-19 PCR tests performed in Iraq lack validity so Iranian pilgrims returning to the country should have received two doses of coronavirus vaccine.
A member of the board of directors of the Iran-Iraq Joint Chamber has said in the first 10 months of this year, $7.280 billion worth of goods were exported to Iraq.
