Iran’s supreme chief meets Iraqi president, says latest safety and financial agreements must be absolutely applied.
Tehran, Iran – Iran’s supreme chief, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, has informed Iraq’s President Abdul Latif Rashid that the presence of “even one American in Iraq is just too many”.
The 2 met in Tehran on Saturday in Rashid’s first go to to Iran as head of state since his election final October.
Rashid additionally held conferences with President Ebrahim Raisi and parliament speaker Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf.
“The Individuals will not be buddies of Iraq,” Khamenei was quoted as saying by his official web site. “The Individuals have friendships with nobody and will not be even loyal to their European buddies.”
Alongside his emphasis on expelling america from the neighbouring nation, the supreme chief additionally pressured that Iran considers Iraq’s progress to be of excessive significance to Iran and mentioned bilateral safety and financial agreements that have been signed final month must be absolutely applied.
“There are sturdy enemies for increasing and deepening relations between Iran and Iraq, and if there have been no stable historic and faith-based ties between the 2 nations, maybe the situation of relations would return to the period of Saddam [Hussein],” he mentioned of the late Iraqi president who invaded Iran shortly after its 1979 revolution.
Rashid was quoted as saying that his authorities will attempt to deepen ties with Iran and needs to resolve variations.
Earlier within the day, the Iraqi president was formally acquired by Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi on the Saadabad Palace in Tehran, the place the 2 held talks after which a joint information convention.
Rashid mentioned that Iraq won’t overlook Iran’s help throughout robust occasions prior to now few many years, and mentioned the 2 nations additionally want to concentrate to the problems of water rights and preventing drug smuggling throughout the area.
The Iraqi president additionally welcomed the settlement between Iran and Saudi Arabia to revive diplomatic ties, saying it is going to “strengthen stability and safety” within the area.
For his half, Raisi mentioned the neighbours will proceed to work collectively on the transport of power, and “financial relations between Iran and Iraq will proceed [to grow] till the wants of each side are absolutely met”.
In late November, Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani grew to become the primary senior official from the present administration to go to Tehran, He additionally met Khemenei and Raisi.
On the time, the supreme chief had grilled him on safety points, notably on Baghdad’s plans to ensure its borders wouldn’t be utilized by these in Kurdish-majority areas to undermine safety on Iranian soil.
Final yr, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) used missiles, drones and artillery quite a few occasions to conduct raids on positions in northern Iraq held by Kurdish teams that Tehran considers to be “terrorist” teams.
A lot of the raids got here after protests erupted throughout Iran in September following the dying in custody of Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish girl.
Iranian authorities mentioned on the time that separatist Kurdish teams – allegedly supported by Western powers – smuggled weapons from Iraq and carried out operations in Iran.