High ranking Iranian and Iraqi officials have started new round of talks to confer over the transfer of Iran’s natural gas to Iraq’s power plants. Deputy Oil Minister Javad Owji said the visiting Iranian delegation is at the moment involved in talks with the Iraqi side, expressing Iran’s readiness for providing the western neighbor with [...]

Iran has entered into talks with Iraq for supplying its neighbor with natural gas, a senior Iranian gas official says. The Deputy Managing Director of the National Iranian Gas Company, Mostafa Kashkouli, said that Iran is in negotiations with Iraq to pump its gas to the country via two pipelines that cross the border at [...]

Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki, after a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart has stressed that Tehran’s relations with Baghdad are cordial and based on mutual respect. Those who want to benefit from harming relations between Iran and Iraq will fail, Mottaki said after a meeting with Iraq’s Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari in Baghdad. Mottaki’s remarks [...]

A senior Iranian official has dismissed any diplomatic conflict between Tehran and Baghdad over an oil field in the Fakkeh region. “Iran and Iraq enjoy amicable and strong relations in all political, economic and trade areas,” said the Iranian Ambassador to Iraq, Hassan Kazemi Qomi in a press conference in Baghdad, Mehr News reported. The [...]