Blackwater training Daesh terrorists in Iraq, eyeing Syria

TEHRAN- The notorious U.S. mercenary firm Blackwater has returned to Iraq, a Lebanese newspaper says, with the private company currently training defeated Daesh terrorists at a base near Baghdad.

Six thousand Iraqis apply for Iran visa every day

TEHRAN – Some six thousand Iraqi nationals apply for the Iranian visa per day, according to Iran’s consulate in the city of Basra.

Iraqi official urges world to stand up to U.S. anti-Iran sanctions

TEHRAN – A top Iraqi official has called on the international community to stand up to the U.S. unlawful sanctions against Iran.

U.S. to grant Iraq waiver to trade with Iran: envoy

TEHRAN - The Iranian ambassador to London has said that the United States is going to grant Iraq waivers to continue trading with Iran.

Iraqi, Iranian military officials meet in Tehran

TEHRAN - General Hamed Atiyeh Khwain, the commander of the Iraqi Army’s Aviation, traveled to Iran on Wednesday at the head of a high-ranking military delegation.

By Ramin Hossein Abadian

U.S. hostile military activities in Iraq

TEHRAN - It seems that U.S. hostile military operations and futile activities in Iraq is not going to end anytime soon. U.S. troops recently launched a new aggressive military operation in Iraq by attacking the headquarters of Iraq security forces in Kirkuk. 

‘Sanctions mean nothing to Iran which has 15 neighbors’

TEHRAN – Former Deputy foreign Minister Mohammad Reza Baqeri has said sanctions do not mean anything to Iran as a country which is surrounded by 15 neighbors.

Iraqi PM: We’ll deploy all our efforts to ease U.S.-Iran tension

TEHRAN – Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has said his country will make every effort to ease the tension between Iran and the United States.

By Ebrahim Fallahi

‘U.S. sanctions doesn’t affect Iraq’s energy ties with Iran’

TEHRAN – Deputy prime minister of Iraq for energy affairs said the U.S. decision on ending waivers on Iran sanctions does not affect Iraq’s energy ties with Iran since the country does not import oil from Iran, IRNA reported on Friday.

Tehran Municipality negotiating to restore Taq Kasra in Iraq

TEHRAN – Tehran Municipality is in talks with Baghdad’s urban planners and authorities to restore a number of aging monuments in Iraq including Taq Kasra, which is an architecturally-important Sasanian-era Persian monument.

Cleric: Iran managed to humiliate U.S. in Iraq, Syria

TEHRAN – Ayatollah Kazem Seddiqi, the interim Friday prayer preacher of Tehran, has highlighted U.S. failures in the region, saying the Islamic Republic managed to discredit the U.S. in Iraq and Syria.

Iraqis have come to help Iranian flood-stricken people: diplomat

TEHRAN - Iraj Masjedi, the Iranian ambassador to Baghdad, has said that a number of Iraqi intellectuals, heads of nomads and members of the Popular Mobilization Forces have come to Iran to help the flood-stricken people.

Resistance groups help flood victims in Iran

TEHRAN — While hundreds of Iranians are hit by floods and are displaced, various campaigns have been launched by Lebanese, Afghan, Pakistani, Iraqi, Tunisian, Syrian, Palestinian, Yemeni, Nigerian, and Bahraini resistance groups to help the victims get back on their feet again.

Iraq, Azerbaijan provide aids to flood-hit regions in Iran 

TEHRAN — Iraq and Azerbaijan have dispatched humanitarian aids to flood-stricken regions of Iran. 

Palestinian, Iraqi resistance groups slam U.S. for blacklisting Iran’s IRGC

A decision by US President Donald Trump to blacklist Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) has sparked condemnations from the Gaza-based Palestinian Islamic Jihad resistance movement as well as the Iraqi military groups, which played a great part in the Arab country’s Iran-backed fight against the Daesh terror group.

Iraqi PM visits Imam Reza shrine in Mashhad 

MASHHAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi visited the shrine of Imam Reza (AS), the eighth Shia Imam, in Mashhad late on Sunday. 

Iran, Iraq to form border task force

TEHRAN - Iranian Deputy Interior Minister Hossein Zolfaghari and Kazem al-Eqabi, head of the Iraqi Border Crossing Body, agreed on Sunday to form a joint task force on common borders.

Iran, Iraq agree to fend off common aerial challenges

TEHRAN – Major General Mohammad Baqeri, chief of the armed forces, has said Iran and its neighbor Iraq have agreed to cooperate in the area of air defense to in order to fend off common aerial challenges.

Baghdad should act in a way that U.S. forces leave Iraq soon, Ayatollah Khamenei suggests

TEHRAN – Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in a meeting with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi on Saturday that the Iranian government and nation consider the Iraqi development and prosperity to their own benefit.

Rouhani says Iran and Iraq determined to cement ties

TEHRAN – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Saturday that Tehran and Baghdad are determined to expand ties and strengthen brotherly relations.

Rouhani: Iran ready to boost energy trade with Iraq

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani says Iran is ready to expand its gas and electricity trade with neighboring Iraq, a move which he said would also benefit other countries.

Iran advance to 2020 AFC U23 Championship

TEHRAN – Iran and Iraq football teams ended the 2020 AFC U23 Championship qualification with a goalless draw on Tuesday.

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Win year for resistance

TEHRAN - The year 1397 is over with all its ups and downs. Realization and consolidation of the victory of the resistance front in Syria, Lebanon's general election victory on March 8th, the crystallization of the political power of the Iraqi Popular Forces, the military and political victory of Ansarullah in Yemen and Zionist withdrawal in the war against Hamas, all raised the “Flag of Resistance” in the region and world.

By Mohammad Homaeefar

Iraq criticizes policies of self-centered countries against Iran

TEHRAN – Iraqi Foreign Ministry spokesman Ahmed al-Sahhaf has highlighted his country’s national sovereignty, saying Iraq will never let other countries use its soil in order to harm neighbors or any other country around the world.

BBC Persian’s misinformation about Soleimani exposed by Italian diplomat

A former Italian ambassador to Iraq has laid flat BBC Persian’s “lie” about IRGC Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani, according to a review by the Young Journalists’ Club.

War on terror will continue relentlessly: Iranian military chief

TEHRAN - Major General Mohammad Baqeri, chief of the Iranian armed forces, said on Monday that fight against terrorism in the region will continue until the phenomenon is totally eradicated.

Zarif: Iranians, Kurds will never forget Halabja chemical attack

TEHRAN – Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the Iranian nation and Kurdish brothers in Iraq will never forget the Halabja and Sardasht chemical attacks.

Rouhani says Iran-Iraq relations are firm

TEHRAN – In a meeting of the Supreme Council of Economic Coordination on Saturday, President Hassan Rouhani said that relationship between Iran and Iraq are so strong that it cannot be damaged.

31 years since Saddam gassed Halabja

March 16 marks the 31st year after the Iraqi Baath regime’s chemical attack against the Kurdish city of Halabja in northern Iraq that killed thousands of people during the closing days of the Iran–Iraq War in the 1980s.

No power can drive a wedge between Iran and Iraq, Rouhani says

TEHRAN – President Hassan Rouhani arrived in Tehran on Wednesday night from his three-day trip to Iraq, which was deemed a new chapter in Tehran-Baghdad relations.