IRNA An Iraqi lawmaker Mithaq Ibrahim believes that Iran's powerful resistance against the US pressures and Washington's need to Baghdad's mediation are the main reasons the US has exempted Iraq form anti-Iran sanctions. Mithaq Ibrahim, a member of committee of economy and investment at Iraq's parliament, told reporters on Sunday that the US's ...

The New York Times - The United States has allowed Iraq to import Iranian gas for its power grid for another three months by extending a waiver to sanctions - but insists that Baghdad seek alternative sources. Iraq has had several extensions to the waiver first granted last year after Washington reimposed sanctions on Tehran's oil sector forbidding ...

Sputnik - Anastasia Dmitrieva - Iraq does not condone the US "very hurting" restrictions against Iran, "sanctions for political reasons," Iraqi Oil Minister Thamir Ghadhban told Sputnik in an interview. "The US policy towards Iran is well-known. We dont really condone it, sanctions for political reasons ... Sanctions hurt people more than governments ...

Sputnik - Washington has assured Baghdad it will prolong a sanctions waiver, allowing Iraq to purchase Iranian energy, a source, close to Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abd Mahdi, told Sputnik. "There is currently no official information [on the issue] but we have the United States' assurance that Iraq will be excluded [from the sanctions]", the source ...

Tasnim The Iraqi parliaments Foreign Relations Committee plans to pressure the US officials to extend a sanctions waiver for Baghdad to continue importing energy from neighboring Iran, Hassan al-Fadam, a member of the committee announced. Speaking to the Arabic-language al-Sumaria News, Fadam said it is likely that the US would extend the anti-...

Al Monitor | Adnan Abu ZeedIran and Iraq have quite different views of their relationship status, with Tehran claiming it's been jilted and Baghdad declaring it's being faithful. Iranian Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh surprised Iraqi officials Feb. 7 when he very publicly expressed dissatisfaction with Iraq reversing some oil agreements, and ...

FNA - Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh and his Iraqi counterpart Thamir Ghadhban, in a meeting in Baghdad, exchanged view on ways to broaden bilateral cooperation, and pledged to expand relations between oil industries of the two countries. During a meeting, Zanganeh expressed hope that mutual talks between Iranian and Iraqi officials ...