MNA Former Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi described Mustafa al-Kadhimi's visit to Iran as a good opportunity to develop relations with Iran and to establish peace and security in the region. The Head of Iraq's Al-Nasr Coalition Haider al-Abadi said that Iraq must balance its international relations and avoid any conflicts, because tensions ...

President.ir - President of the Islamic Republic of Iran emphasised that Iran and Iraq, alongside other countries in the region like Turkey, play an important role in the region. Speaking with the Former Prime Minister of Iraq Haider al-Abadi on Tuesday, Dr Hassan Rouhani said, We should attempt to promote multilateral cooperation among the countries ...

President.ir - During the 2nd day of his trip to Baghdad, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held meetings with some senior Iraqi officials including president of the Islamic Supreme Council of Iraq Ammar al-Hakim, former prime ministers of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki and Haider al-Abadi and discussed issues of mutual interest.�  

IRNA Former prime ministers of Iraq Nouri al-Maliki and Haider al-Abadi met with Iran's president Hassan Rouhani in Baghdad on Tuesday. They paid the visit in Rouhani's residence place in the Iraqi capital. National Security Council advisor Falih Alfayyadhof too visited President Rouhani in the palce which is locaged in Dar Dhiafa in Baghdad....

IRNA Iraqi Prime Minister Heydar al-Abadi said on Tuesday that terrorist attack in Ahvaz is a cowardly move and condemned. In a news meeting late Tuesday, he said that such attacks are carried out by the terrorist groups affiliated to the extremist currents and their cowardly acts are condemned by the entire world. We should always take care because ...

Press TV - Iraq has announced plans to deploy troops along the border with Turkey in an effortto defend the frontier against any violations of its territory and airspace. In a statement released on Sunday, the office of Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said the deployment of border guards is meant to protect the countrys border areas and ...

Tasnim Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has ordered an investigation into recent violence reportedly sparked by mismanagement and the poor services in the port city of Basra. The national security team of al-Abadi is investigating the situation in Basra, according to a statement by his office late on Friday, AP reported. Al-Abadi also said ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Sunday, September 2, 2018, and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Several papers today covered the remarks made by Ali Larijani, the Speaker of Irans Parliament, about the European leaders ...

FNA - A leading Lebanese newspaper revealed documents showing that the UAE is trying to create a rift between Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Iran. "One of the documents shows that UAE Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Ahmad al-Shaha wants Iraqi prime minister's position to get closer to Saudi Arabia," the Arabic-language al-Akhbar daily reported ...

IRNA - Iraq will send a delegation to the United States to seek an agreement on financial transactions with Iran following Washingtons reimposition of sanctions on Tehran, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday. His statement was the first by an Iraqi official since Reuters reported last week Baghdad was going to ask Washington for exemptions ...

Reuters - Iraqs economy is so closely linked to Iran that Baghdad is going to ask Washington for permission to ignore some U.S. sanctions on its neighbor, Iraqi government and central bank officials said. U.S. President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from an international deal aimed at limiting Irans nuclear program earlier this year and ...

Press TV - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi says his government will only refrain from using the dollarin transactions with Iran without complying with the full scope of US sanctions against the Islamic Republic. "Our commitment in the Iran issue is to not use the dollar currency in transaction, not abiding by the US sanctions," state television ...

MNA Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's visit to Iran has been canceled. Abadi will still go ahead with a planned visit to Turkey on Tuesday but has scrapped the Iran leg of the trip "because of his busy schedule", his office said. Iraq's prime minister has been under criticism since last week, when he told reportersthat "while ...

IRNA - The National Security Council of Iraq on Sunday underlined the importance of preserving the distinguished ties with Iran. In a session presided over by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, the council also rejected the wrong interpretations of the remarks made recently by the Iraqi PM on anti-Iran sanctions. Meanwhile, Iraqi government ...

Al-Monitor - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadis comments that his country would abide by US sanctions has taken Iranian media by surprise. "As a matter of principle we are against sanctions in the region,"Abadi said at a press conference Aug. 8. "Blockade and sanctions destroy societies and weaken regimes."He added that they are a "strategic mistake"but ...

IFP - Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi says the recent remarks by Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi on his countrys compliance with the US sanctions on Iran will have no impact on bilateral ties between the two neighbouring countries. saMasjedi underlined on Saturday that Iran and Iraq will keep their good relations as they did in ...

MNA The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has told Iranian media that he did not have any knowledge of reported Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi's visit to Iran. I have not received any prior notification or witnessed an official announcement on the visit Bahram Ghasemi told Fars News Agency yesterday. Prior to ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Saturday, August 11, 2018, and picked headlines from 19 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. Several papers today covered the remarks made by the Leader of Irans Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei ...

Iran Front Page - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Thursday, August 9, 2018, and picked headlines from 14 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy. The fresh round of US sanctions on Iran and Baghdads surprising support for them received great coverage today. Many ...

Sputnik - On Monday night, the US introduced the first wave of sanctions targeting Iran's acquisition of dollar bank notes, trade in gold and other metals, transactions related to the Iranian rial, and purchases of commercial passenger aircraft entered into force. "We are againstinternational sanctions and there is an experience inIraq ...