Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi received word from Iran that its response to the U.S. killing of its top general was either imminent or under way, his spokesman said on Wednesday. Iranian forces fired missiles at military bases housing U.S. troops in Iraq in retaliation for the U.S. killing of the Iranian general, raising the stakes ...

Press TV - Iraq's CaretakerPrime MinisterAdel Abdul-Mahdi has said that Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani was set to deliver Tehran's reply to an earlier Saudi message regarding de-escalation talks mediated by Baghdad when he was assassinated. Abdul-Mahdi made the remarks during an extraordinary parliamentary session in the capital which led to ...

Press TV - Iraqi authorities have lifted a days-long curfew in Baghdad as normalcy returns to the streets of the country's capital. Reuters reported on Saturday that traffic ran as usual in Baghdad,with streets and main squares being otherwise quite. Iraqi Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdi had announced the curfew on Thursday. The country's ...

Tasnim Saudi Arabia has given a green light to Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to arrange a meeting with Iran as a first step towards de-escalating tensions in the region, a report said. Abbas al-Hasnawi, an official in the Iraqi prime minister's office, told Middle East Eye on Tuesday that Abdul Mahdi was mediating between the leaderships ...

Reuters - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has accused Israel of being behind attacks on Iranian-backed militia positions in Iraq, the first time Baghdad has directly blamed Israel, Al Jazeera television reported on Monday. Investigations into the targeting of some Popular Mobilisation Forces positions indicate that Israel carried it out, Al ...

MNA According to Iraqi media, Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi is planned to visit Iran. Abdul-Mahdi, who has arrived from Saudi Arabia wants to invite Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman and the Iranian President Hassan Rouhani to Baghdad for a meeting, an Iraqi website reported. Abdul-Mahdi traveled to Riyadh on September 25, where he met King Salman ...

Al-Monitor |Makram Najmuddine: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo decided May 8 to cancel his meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and instead head to Iraq. The top US diplomat made it clear that he was visiting Baghdad to discuss increasing tensions with Iran. An Iraqi official told Al-Monitor on condition of anonymity that Pompeo, in fact,...

President.ir - The Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq signed five memoranda of understanding in the presence of President Hassan Rouhani and Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi. The documents were in the fields Basra-Shalamcheh Railway Project, visa facilitation for investors, health, a MoU between Ministry of Industry, Mines and Trade of ...

Tasnim Iraqs Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said Baghdad would seek to finalize the strategic dossiers with Tehran during an upcoming visit by the Iranian president to the Arab country. During a press conference on Tuesday in Baghdad, Adel Abdul-Mahdi confirmed a forthcoming visit by President Hassan Rouhani to Iraq, according to Al-Masalah news ...

Press TV - Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi says the promotion of Iran-Iraq relations will serve the interests of the two nations as well as the entire Middle East region. In a meeting with Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi in Baghdad on Monday, the Iraqi prime minister expressed hope that the exchange of visits between the two ...

Tasnim The visiting Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif met with Iraqs Prime Minister Adil Abdul-Mahdai in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad on Sunday. Heading a high-ranking Iranian delegation, Zarif arrived in Baghdad for an official visit. At the meeting, the two sides explored avenues for further expansion of bilateral relations. They ...

Sputnik A meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi and US President Donald Trump, which was planned to be held during the latters visit to the Middle Eastern country, was cancelled and subsequently replaced by a phone call due to disagreements on the organization of the talks, the Iraqi government said. "An official reception and a ...

IRNA Irans Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi held talks with the Iraqi new Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi late Tuesday. During the meeting, Masjedi congratulated Abdul Mahdi on his election as the countrys new prime minister. Reaffirming Irans support for Iraqi reconstruction and boosting political and security stability, the envoy voiced Irans ...

IRNA Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Sunday congratulated Iraq's new Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi on his election to the post. Hassan Rouhani in his letter to Adel Abdul-Mahdi expressed the hope that during his tenure, Iran and Iraq relations are consolidated in various fields of politics, economy and culture at the interest of both countries....

Press TV- A senior Iranian official says the Islamic Republic supports the establishment of a balanced and just ceasefire in Syria. Negotiations to solve the Syriacrisis must be held among the Syrian government and opposition groups and the war must finally end, Ali Akbar Velayati, the senior adviser to Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah ...

TEHRAN Nov. 21 (Shana) -- Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi called on other member countries of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) to preserve their unity in order for oil prices to recover. "OPEC countries must make the best decision through cooperation with each other and proper assessment of the oil market status," said ...

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraqi Oil Minister Adel Abdel Mehdi blasted certain countries for trying to distract the attention of the international community from the ongoing fight against the ISIL, and warned that special interest groups are replacing the threat of ISIL with Iran in order to achieve their goals. The remarks by Abdel Mehdi came in reaction to ...

Daily look at Irans late-breaking news and upcoming events:   Low oil price plotters to regret Irans President Hassan Rouhani has said the countries that have driven oil prices down will regret their act. FM: Europe can effectively help reaching a nuclear deal Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday that Europe can play a ...

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Tehran, Jan 13, IRNA A senior official said on Tuesday that Iran is to boost its economic power by cooperating with neighboring states and neutralizing effects of falling oil prices on political attitudes in order to immune the country against unjust sanctions. Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Ali Shamkhani made the remarks ...