(26 Sep 2020) Iraq's foreign minister arrived on Saturday in Tehran for bilateral talks with senior Iranian officials, according to the state-run news agency.
Upon his arrival, Fuad Hussein met his Iranian counterpart Mohammad Javad Zarif and was scheduled to meet President Hassan Rouhani, in what marked his first visit to the Iranian capital.
The report did not elaborate on the main reasons behind the top Iraqi diplomat's two-day trip to Tehran.
Iran sees neighboring Iraq as a possible route to bypass US sanctions that President Donald Trump re-imposed in 2018 after pulling the US out of the 2015 nuclear deal between Tehran and world powers.
Last year, Iran’s exports to Iraq amounted to nearly $9 billion, the official IRNA news agency reported on Tuesday. It said the two nations will discuss increasing the amount to $20 billion.
Before the current global pandemic, some 5 million Iranian pilgrims annually brought in nearly $5 billion visiting Iraq's Shiite holy sites.
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