Iran's Parliament Speaker Ghalibaf stated Iran supports Iraqi consensus and independence. Economic cooperation will advance with an upcoming Iraqi business delegation visit. Discussions focused on strengthening bilateral ties and security cooperation between the nations. Iraq is moving towards withdrawing foreign forces, enhancing its sovereignty. Paramilitary groups face a deadline to integrate into state security structures.

Iran is pushing proposals to avert a confrontation between Iraq’s government and Tehran-aligned armed factions over their weapons, with Parliament Speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf…

Upon Ghalibaf’s arrival, he insisted that the two countries needed to strengthen a “new regional order” and denounced “foreign interference.”