Tehran, YJC. Iran's Supreme National Security Council Secretary Ali Shamkhani praised the security levelof the Arbaeen rituals in Iraq’s Karbala on Monday.
Tehran, YJC. The spokesman for the Iranian administration Mohammad Baqer Nobakht said Iran, trying to facilitate the movement of pilgrims, plans to connect its railroad network to Iraq.
Chairman of the Expediency Council Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said on Monday that Iraq can play a very significant role to help resolve issues in Syria and Lebanon IRNA reported.
Iraq's Interior Ministry said on Wednesday that a woman detained by Lebanese authorities was not the wife of Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, but the sister of a man convicted of bombings in southern Iraq.
Iranian fighter jets have bombed Islamic State (IS) jihadists in eastern Iraq in recent days, but the strikes were not coordinated with US forces, the Pentagon says.
TEHRAN, YJC. Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi praised Iran for standing by his country in very critical conditions, when other countries were hesitant to help the Arab nation in the face of threats posed by terrorists.
TEHRAN, YJC. Iran’s Deputy FM for Arab and African Affairs criticizes the US failure in fighting ISIL and says US intention is to deploy troops in Iraq once more.
Tehran, YJC. Deputy Foreign Minister in African and Arab Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian said that Iran and Turkey sooner or later will succeed in settling the Syrian crisis through a common political means.
TEHRAN, YJC. Iran’s first vice president Eshaq Jahangiri met with Iraqi Prime Minister in Tehran on Tuesday and stressed that Iran would continue its support for Iraq against terrorist groups.