TEHRAN, September 12 - Iran opened a new consulate in Iraq’s southern city of Basra a few days after the old diplomatic mission was torched in a mob attack.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Iraqi Minister Haider al-Abadi has paid a visit to the country’s southern oil-rich port city of Basra, a week after protests over alleged corruption and government neglect escalated into deadly violence.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Iraqi Minister Haider al-Abadi has paid a visit to the country’s southern oil-rich port city of Basra, a week after protests over alleged corruption and government neglect escalated into deadly violence.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Iraqi Minister Haider al-Abadi has paid a visit to the country’s southern oil-rich port city of Basra, a week after protests over alleged corruption and government neglect escalated into deadly violence.
TEHRAN, September 10 - Iraq indicated that it has officially removed the US dollar in trade with Iran by announcing a legal limit for passengers to carry along Euros - instead of the customary US Dollars - into the Islamic Republic.
TEHRAN, September 08 - A senior member of Hashd al-Shaabi, one of the country’s official branches of armed forces, pointed the finger at the US consulate in Basra for the recent violent unrest in the city during which rioters torched several buildings, including the Iranian consulate.
TEHRAN, September 09 - Security forces have been stationed in Basra’s streets after some government buildings and Iranian consulate in Basra were torched.
TEHRAN, September 08 - Basra airport was targeted by rocket fire on Saturday after a night of protests over perceived misrule by Iraq’s political elite during which demonstrators torched the Iranian consulate and briefly took oilfield workers hostage.
TEHRAN, September 08 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry summoned the Iraqi ambassador to Tehran in protest at a mob attack on the Iranian consulate in the city of Basra and the Iraqi police’s inaction on the incident despite the recent threats against the Iranian diplomatic mission.
TEHRAN, September 05 - The United Nations has called for calm in Iraq’s Basra in the wake of protests over poor public services that left six people killed on Tuesday.
TEHRAN, September 05 - Five protesters were killed and 16 more were injured during a second night of clashes with security forces in Iraq's main southern city Basra on Tuesday, September 4, local health and security sources said.
TEHRAN, September 03 - Iran says it will work with any government which is formed in neighboring Iraq after two political factions created an alliance that would give them a majority bloc in parliament.
TEHRAN, September 03 - Rival Iraqi political factions said on Sunday they had each formed alliances capable of forming a government in the new parliament after months of political uncertainty following a May election.
TEHRAN, September 03 - Iran’s Foreign Ministry slammed the US military presence in the region as the root cause of instability, urging Washington not to interfere in Iraq’s internal affairs.
TEHRAN, September 02 - Iraq's Foreign Ministry says it was "astonished" at a Reuters report, which claimed that Iran had moved missiles to Iraq, saying the claim lacked any "tangible evidence."
TEHRAN, September 02 - US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has spoken to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and Vice President Ayad Allawi amid public frustration with Washington's interference in Baghdad's affairs.
TEHRAN, September 02 - Chief of Staff of the Iranian Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Hossein Baqeri and his Russian, Iraqi, and Syrian counterparts are planned to hold a joint meeting in the near future, a high-ranking Iranian commander said.
TEHRAN, September 02 - Senior military commanders from Iraq, Russia, Iran and Syria have met in Baghdad and exchanged views on security and intelligence cooperation.
TEHRAN, September 01 -Iraqi security forces have killed a high-ranking commander of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group in the country’s north-central province of Salahuddin as government troops, backed by allied fighters from the Popular Mobilization Units, are seeking to purge the war-ravaged Arab country of remnants of the extremist outfit.