Iraq's National security adviser Qasim al-Araji in a meeting on Sunday with Irans envoy to Baghdad Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadeq discussed border security and measures taken by Iranian and Iraqi sides to control borders. During the meeting, the two sides discussed bilateral ties and ways to boost relations that benefit the interests of the ...

Following the Iranian Judiciary chiefs recent visit to Iraq, the Arab country has reopened several border crossings for the shipment of Iranian commodities by land freight. The Iraqi Ministry of Transport has issued an order to reopen a number of border crossings to Iranian trucks after a recent visit by Iran's Judiciary Chief Seyed Ebrahim Raeisi ...

MNA A senior security official Brigadier General Mohsen Fathizadeh said that Iran-Iraq borders are fully secure for the return of Arbaeen pilgrims. He made the remarks on Monday in a meeting with the Head of Arbaeen Headquarters Zolfaghari and Governor General of Ilam province Ghasem Dashtaki. This year, we witnessed considerable growth in the ...

MNA The Public Relations Department of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) announced in a statement on Friday that the forces have struck terrorist bases on the shared borders with Iraqi Kurdistan, killing and wounding a large number of terrorists. "In retaliationto the recent terrorist acts in northwest and west of Iran, and ...

Radio Farda - The Iranian Customs Administration closed Soumar border crossing in Western Iran on Tuesday May 21, bringing export of Iranian goods to Iraq to a halt, Mehr news agency reported. A statement issued by the Iranian Customs Administration orders transportation companies "To stop sending export goods to the Soumar border until further ...

Tasnim Commander of Irans Border Police Brigadier General Qassem Rezaei described the current security situation of the common borders with Iraq as good and said grounds are provided for Iranian pilgrims to go to Iraq for Arbaeen rituals. Today, we are witnessing the highest level of unity between the nations and statesmen of Iran and Iraq, Brigadier ...

IRNA Iraqi Border Guards Commander Lieutenant General Hamed al-Husseini said on Tuesday that bordering relations with Iran is excellent. In spite of 1,400-kilometer-long border between the two countries there is no problem between the two states, the general said. He added that there exists friendly relations between border guards commanders of ...

November 15, The Iran Project Irans Ambassador to Baghdad Hassan Danaeifar says managing more than 20 million Arbaeen pilgrims is a divine miracle, appreciating the Iraqi government and nation for their warm reception and hospitality. Visiting Shalamcheh bordercrossing at Khuzestan province, Hassan Danaeifar discussed the pilgrims problems with ...

Ahvaz, Khuzestan prov., July 18, IRNA Iranian and Iraqi officials in the southwestern province of Khuzestan met in the provincial capital Ahvaz on Sunday to explore ways to facilitate ties between Iraqi and Iranian citizens residing in the two neighboring countries' border provinces. Khuzestan Governor General Gholamreza Shariati and Iraqi Consul ...

Tehran, May 5, IRNA -- Nazim Dabbagh, representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Tehran, said in an interview that Iran plays active and positive role in fight with terrorism. Referring to the regional cooperation in dealing with the issue of terrorism, Dabbagh said terrorism is not a threat for just a country but for a ...

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian state TV says gunmen have killed three police officers in southern Iran near the Iraqi border. Press TV says the shooting took place Thursday morning in the town of Hamidiyeh, some 550 kilometers (340 miles) southwest of the capital Tehran. It quotes a local police chief as saying that a special police unit is searching ...

[caption id="attachment_129818" align="alignright" width="156"] Flags of Iran & Iraq[/caption] Baghdad, Feb 23, IRNA Iraqi Minister of Tourism and Antiquities Adil Fahd al-Sharshab called his country's relations with Iran 'excellent', saying even terrorist acts have not been able to prevent pilgrims from travelling between the two countries. Speaking ...

Ahvaz, Khuzestan prov, Jan 31, IRNA Commander of Iranian border police Brigadier General Qassem Rezaie said the fencing of the borderline between Iran and Iraq in south of the country has completed. He said once the fencing job of the land borders between the two countries is done, experts from both countries will start defining the exact borderlines ...

TEHRAN (Tasnim) An Iranian deputy minister said a high level of security prevails along the countrys joint borders with neighboring Iraq as some 1.5 million Iranian pilgrims have been returning home after attending religious ceremonies in Karbala. There has been no security problem along the borders, neither inside Iran nor Iraq, Iran's deputy ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iranian Interior Minister Abdolreza Rahmani Fazli underlined preparedness of the country's military, security and intelligence forces to thwart any threat or plot hatched by the enemies to destabilize security at borders, particularly across the Western provinces bordering Iraq. "During my visits to Parviz Khan, Khosravi, and Kermanshah ...