News Source: Macleans
| 9 months ago
Rafsanjani's visit to Iraq comes three days after President Barack Obama announced that the U.S. military would end its combat mission in Iraq in August 2010 but leave up to 50,000 soldiers in support roles until the end of 2011. Iran claims that...
News Source: Middle East Security News
| 9 months ago
Iran and Iraq touted their renewed relations as officials reached a variety of bilateral measures during a visit to Tehran by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. "After many years of oppression and dictatorship by the former Iraqi regime, it is high time...
News Source: Middle East Security News
| 9 months ago
The Iranian resistance movement called on U.S. President Barack Obama to provide security assurances to its members in Iraq's Diyala province. The Paris-based National Council of Resistance of Iran said that Iran's supreme leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali...
News Source: Voice of America
| 9 months ago
Former Iranian President Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani is in Iraq for talks on boosting political, religious and economic ties. Mr. Rafsanjani, who heads the influential Expediency Council, arrived Monday in Baghdad and met with Iraqi President Jalal...
News Source: Yedioth Ahronoth
| 9 months ago
Former Iranian President Hashemi Rafsanjani is in Baghdad to begin talks with political and religious leaders. His arrival Monday follows last week's meetings in Tehran by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. The Shiite-led government in Baghdad...
News Source: Christian Science Monitor
| 9 months ago
Pressure is growing on Iran's main opposition group to leave Iraqi territory after living under US military protection in a camp north of Baghdad since 2003. Some 3,400 militants of the Mujahideen-e Khalq (known by the acronyms MKO or MEK) face...