Tehran, YJC. High-ranking officials hailing from Tehran and Baghdad emphasized the need for using the two neighbors’ capacities to help improve the ME region’s economical and political situations.
In a meeting on Monday in Tehran, Iran’s Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif and the Oil Minister of Iraq Adil Abdul-Mahdi al-Muntafiki
discussed watys for the enhancement of bilateral ties between Tehran and
Baghdad.
The 2 officials reiterated the need for cooperation in fighting
terrorism, and stated that other regional countries should also coordinate
efforts to meet such threats.
Iraq has been facing a growing terrorist trend, mainly posed
by the Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) terrorist group since 2014.
The terrorist group made swift advances in much of northern
and western Iraq over summer 2014, following their seizure of large territories
of northern Syria.
After several air raids by the US-lead coalition proved to
be useless in grounding the terrorist group, the Iraqi Army, aided especially
by Kurdish peshmarga fought them back and managed to retake several areas from
them.
Meanwhile, Iran has repeatedly urged support for the Iraqi government
and has itself been in pioneer with its military advices which it has offered
to Iraq’s army.