Monday April 23, 2012
Maliki's visit to Iran, ending a two-day
Editor: SS Monday, 23 نيسان 2012 15:57 GMT
Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Iranian President Ahmadinejad
Sumerian News / Baghdad
ended the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, on Monday, a visit to Iran, which lasted for two days, and returned to Baghdad. Maliki's office said in a statement posted on his website, that "Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, concluded his visit to Tehran, which lasted for two days, and arrived in the evening Today, with the delegation accompanying him to Baghdad. " arrived in the Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki on Sunday (April 22, 2012), to Tehran on an official visit, and the last visit of the owners to Iran in October 2010, part of a tour of a number of regional countries, including Syria and Jordan and Turkey. and First Deputy Chairman of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Mohammad Reza Rahimi, during his meeting with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, said Monday that Iraq and Iran if they were joined fully, they "will form a major world power," and added that the two peoples ties with "unique", while Maliki reiterated the importance of development of bilateral relations on the "basis of peace, stability and common interests." The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad stressed, on Sunday night, the need to implement agreements and bilateral memoranda of understanding signed between the two countries, while Maliki called to exchange visits between officials of both countries, showed Ahmadinejad Iran's readiness to activate bilateral cooperation in all fields. and met with Maliki's visit to Iran mixed reactions which confirmed Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, on Sunday, (April 22, 2012), not to accept a visit by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki to Tehran whether at the expense of national interest, indicating that the timing raises a lot of inquiries and concerns of a repeat scenario in 2010 which led to the Iranian interference form the government and support the party at the expense of its partners and to encourage the imposition of dictatorship and the exclusion of some components, as carried Iraqi National Accord Movement, led by Ayad Allawi, Sunday, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's responsibility "to drag the country" to more foreign interventions, while accusing him of "deportation crisis and play on the tendon sectarianism", considered foreign intervention led to looting of their right to form a government. The State of Law coalition, on Sunday, ( April 22, 2012), that Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki will discuss during his visit to Tehran outstanding issues between the two countries and to host Iraq expected for the nuclear summit which held its first round in Istanbul, in what was to talk about the presence of Iranian influence in Iraq "controversy politically." and called Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki in more than one occasion, the positions of defending the independence of his government and denies being subject to any foreign intervention, especially from Iran, accused by a number of Iraqi parties and European countries and the United States to interfere, directly to the affairs of Iraq's internal and support the armed groups and Shiite militias through processing with weapons and explosives. considered the Iraqi List led by Iyad Allawi, the most prominent opponents of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, in (January 17, 2012), that Iran is "wedded" the latter of having strong relations with Iran and trying to invest those relationships to play the role of mediator outside the United States, while the MP from the Kurdistan Alliance supporter of good, in the January 19, 2012, al-Maliki to take a "firm" of Iranian interference. It is noteworthy that the commander of Iran's Qods Force Brigadier General Qassem Soleimani, announced at a seminar under the title "Youth and Islamic awareness" in (January 20, 2012) in the presence of a number of young people from Arab countries, which saw revolutions against regimes that Iraq and southern Lebanon are subject to the will of Tehran and its ideas, stressing that his country can be organized any movement to the formation of Islamic governments in both countries, sparking a series of reactions condemning the majority of the Iraqi political blocs, before Iran denies what was attributed to Soleimani. noteworthy that the Iraqi-Iranian relations have seen many differences due to decades, and most of them focused on the ownership of the Shatt al-Arab, which flows into the Gulf, and the Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi abolished in 1969 border agreement between the two countries in 1937, and the student then that the line is the middle of the river (thalweg) the boundary between the two countries, and in 1972 signed a military clashes sporadically on the border, and after mediation Arab countries signed the Algiers Convention of 1975, which is under the line of mid-Shatt al-Arab is the boundary between Iran and Iraq.
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