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Baghdad

Iraq, Iran, to sign agreement soon to settle their suspended problems

BAGHDAD / IraqiNews.com: Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, has said on Wednesday that Iran and Iraq would sign an important agreement soon to overcome all the suspended problems between both countries.   “Iran and Iraq will soon sign an important agreement that will overcome all the suspended problems between the two countries,” the semi-official Iranian Mehr News Agency, quoted Zibary as saying during a meeting with the Chairman of the Iranian Shoura Council, Ali Larijany in Tehran on Tuesday night.   “Iran is playing a positive role in Iraq and there is no objection for the strengthening of relations between the two countries,” Zibary said, highly assessing the “assistance, granted by Iran to the Iraqi people.”   On his part, Larijany said that “the Iranian government would care for the fate of the Iraqi people, looking forward for the establishment of an independent, free and sovereign state in Iraq.”   Iraq’s Foreign Minister, Hoshiar Zibary, began an official visit to Iran on Tuesday, leading a high-level delegation, to discuss the political developments in the Region.   SKH (TI)/SR 590