Envoy: Iran, Iraq’s security intertwined
Iran’s ambassador to Iraq said that Baghdad’s security is intertwined with that of Tehran’s, hence, both the Iranian and Iraqi presidents emphasized the importance of maintaining security in Iraq in the recent visit of the Iraqi President Abdullatif Rashid to Tehran on Saturday.
In an interview with ISNA, Mohammad Kazem Al-Sadeq said that currently, Iran and Iraq enjoy $10 billion in trade relations, yet both sides emphasized the necessity of boosting the trade level.
Elsewhere in the interview, the ambassador discussed Iraq’s water crisis, saying, “In this regard, we announced to the Iraqi government that we are ready to provide them with our experiences related to water management and such.”
During this trip, he added, the Iraqi authorities presented a report on Baghdad’s measures to create security on the common borders of the two countries and to prevent the activities of terrorist groups on the Iran-Iraq border, emphasizing that although Rashid’s trip was short, it certainly was “constructive.”
He then noted that the Iraqi president extended an invitation to his Iranian counterpart, while President Ebrahim Raeisi accepted the invitation.
“The exact date of the trip will be determined through mutual consultations,” he concluded.