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‘Well-structured’ security ties to drive Iran-Iraq economic stability: Larijani
Ali Larijani was speaking to reporters after a meeting with Iraqi National Security Advisor Qassem al-Araji in Tehran.
“We discussed a range of security and economic issues. For our economic ties with Iraq to remain stable, our security cooperation must also be well-structured.”
The Iranian official also pointed to the US and Israel’s use of Iraq’s airspace to launch strikes on Iran in June, saying that as the Iraqi official said Baghdad has repeatedly opposed to the issue but it is an example of how the United States behaves with independent countries, including Iraq.
"Iraq is an independent country that has maintained this independence years after dictatorship, but the United States and the Zionist regime do not allow this independence to be preserved," Larijani told reporters.
Araji, for his part, underlined that the Iraqi government is fully committed to the security agreement with Iran, saying that, "Baghdad has repeatedly stressed that it will not allow its airspace to be used against Iran."
On June 13, Israel launched an unprovoked aggression against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that killed at least 1,064 people in the country, including military commanders, nuclear scientists, and civilians.
The United States also entered the war by bombing three peaceful Iranian nuclear sites in a grave violation of international law.
In response, the Iranian Armed Forces targeted strategic sites across the occupied territories as well as the al-Udeid air base in Qatar, the largest American military base in West Asia.
On June 24, Iran, through its successful retaliatory operations against both the Israeli regime and the US, effectively halted the ongoing terrorist assault.