Top Iranian Diplomat in Iraq for Political Talks
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amirabdollahian traveled to Iraq for talks on a series of bilateral and regional issues.
Heading a diplomatic delegation, Amirabdollahian has visited Baghdad at the invitation of his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussein.
The top Iranian diplomat is going to hold talks with the Iraqi foreign minister, President Abdul Latif Rashid, Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, Parliament Speaker Mohammed al-Halbousi, the head of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq, and the chairman of Iraqi National Security Council about the relations between Tehran and Baghdad and their regional cooperation.
Upon their arrival in Iraq on Tuesday night, the Iranian foreign minister and his entourage visited a memorial site near Baghdad airport built in commemoration of former commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.
General Soleimani was assassinated in a US strike on January 3, 2020, when he was on an official visit to Baghdad. Hitting his convoy, the barbaric assault also led to the martyrdom of many others, including Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, then deputy commander of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) or Hashd al-Sha’abi anti-terror force.
