MNA Iraqi president announced on Friday that holding an early election in the country is an irreversible demand. Speaking on the occasion of Eid al-Adha, Iraqi President Barham Salih called for unity to tackle the economic and health problems the country is facing due to the spread of coronavirus. He went on to say that political parties must ...

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....

MNA President of the Islamic Republic of Iran sent message to Barham Salih to offer him congratulations on the vote of confidence of the representatives of the Iraqi people as the president of Iraq. Rouhani expressed hope that relations between the two countries further develop in all fields of mutual interest. President Hassan Rouhanis message ...

MNA Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi congratulated the election of Barham Salih as the new president of Iraq. In a Tuesday message, Ghasemi offered congratulations to Barham Salihon on his election as the new Iraqi president and hoped that the long friendly ties between the two countries would further expand in his new ...

IRNA Irans Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi in a message on Tuesday congratulated Barham Salih on his election as the countrys new president. I am happy to congratulate Your Excellency as president-elect of Iraq, the message said. Noting that Iran-Iraq ties enjoy special status, Masjedi said, I welcome the election and I underline my countrys principled ...

IRNA Irans Parliament Speaker Ali Larijani, in a message on Saturday, congratulated Mohammed al-Halbousi on his election as Iraq's new Parliament speaker. Hailing exemplary relations between the two neighboring countries, Larijani expressed the hope that friendly ties between Tehran and Baghdad will further promote during al-Halbousis tenure in office....

IFP - Iraqs top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is reportedly opposed to the candidacy of former Iraqi officials for the post of prime minister, according to a source. Some media reports had earlier quoted a number of Iraqi lawmakers as saying Ayatollah Sistani has explicitly named a number of politicians and expressed his opposition ...

Alwaght - Three months into Iraqs parliamentary election debate over forming government and the parliaments session to form the parliaments majority bloc are still underway. The root cause of the delay has been the objections raised against the vote results by some losing parties, but even the victors have a share in the situation as they have ...

Middle East Eye | Marco Carnelos: Whoever believes that it is possible to affect from the outside the complex relationship between Iranian and Iraqi Shias is living in a world of fantasy The aftermath of the Iraqi elections on 12 Mayconfirmed the country's troubled political cycle. Although the polls reflected the Iraqis' desire for political change,...

Press TV - Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi and cleric Moqtada al-Sadr have announced an alliance between the political parties. "We announce a cross-sectarian, cross-ethnic alliance to speed up forming the next government and to agree on common points that guarantee the interests of the Iraqi people," said Sadr during a news conference ...

Press TV - Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr and head of the countrys Badr Organization Hadi al-Amiri have announced a political alliance between their parties. The announcement was made on Tuesday during a joint press conferences held in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Sadr'sSairoonbloc won 54 out of 329 seats in the Iraqi parliament. The Fatah (Conquest) ...

Press TV - Iraqi cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, whose coalition won the largest number of seats in the country's recent parliamentary elections, has rejected calls for an election rerun, warning Iraqis about breaking out of a possible civil war just a day after a storage site in Baghdad, which housed ballot boxes, was purportedly torched ahead of a recount....

Iranian Diplomacy- Iraqs electoral commission ultimately announced the final results of the countrys parliamentary elections. The results suggested that a political coalition led by influential Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr won 54 seats the most seats. The Fatah bloc led by Hadi al-Amiri, which has close ties with the Popular Mobilization Units, ...

IRNA Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday welcomed the results of recent parliamentary elections in the neighboring Iraq which determined the winners of 329 seats of the Council of Representatives. Iran and Iraq enjoy good relations and the Islamic Republic is optimistic about the future of relations with the new government in Baghdad, ...

Reuters- Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, whose political bloc was declared the winner of Iraqs parliamentary election, met Hadi al-Amiri, leader of a pro-Iran bloc, on Sunday in what Sadr portrayed as part of an inclusive discussion about government formation. During the meeting, the political rivals discussed the results of the 2018 parliamentary ...

Press TV - Iraq's electoral commission has announced the Sa'iroun (Marchers) political bloc, cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's alliance with communists, as the winner of the country's parliamentary elections. Sadr's alliance, which contested in Iraq's elections for the first time, captured 54 parliamentary seats, the commission said on Saturday. Sadr's ...

Reuters - Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani is holding talks with politicians in Baghdad to promote the formation of a new Iraqi cabinet which would have Irans approval, two people familiar with the political process underway in Iraq said on Wednesday. Gen. Soleimani, commander of foreign operations for Irans elite Revolutionary Guards, arrived ...

Sputnik - The outcome of the May 12 parliamentary vote in Iraq plays directly into the hands of Tehran, analysts told Sputnik predicting that Iran's influence in the region would increase as Iraq's leading Shia parties are about to take the majority of the seats in the country's parliament. The success ofShia parties inthe May 12 Iraqi ...

MNA In a post published in his twitter page on Wednesday, Iranian Parliament's General Director for International Affairs Hossein Amir-Abdollahian congratulated the successful parliamentary election to Iraqi people and emphasized the continuation of strategic ties between the two countries. He hailedthe successful holding of Iraqs parliamentary ...

IRNA Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi congratulated the Iraqi nation and government on the successful holding of parliamentary elections in the country. He said late Monday that the Iraqi people consolidated their achievements and victories in the fight against terrorism through their participation in the election. By participating in ...