ERBIL, Kurdistan Region of Iraq - Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani will visit neighboring Iran on Wednesday to discuss Baghdad-Tehran bilateral relations and regional developments.
"The visit will include discussing bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to enhance them, in light of what was achieved during the visit of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian to Baghdad in September of last year,” according to the Iraqi premier’s media office.
During his visit, Iraqi Prime Minister Sudani is set to "discuss developments taking place in the region.”
Last week, the Iranian Foreign Ministry revealed that Sudani’s visit to Tehran would be "in line with the continuous consultations between the two countries to expand bilateral relations and consult on regional development.”
Iran and Iraq are major allies and share extensive ties across all sectors. Sudani’s trip comes nearly a month after the ouster of Bashar al-Assad in Syria, who was strongly supported by both Tehran and Baghdad.
In September, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian visited Baghdad on his first official foreign visit since taking office two months earlier, where he was received by both Sudani and President Abdul Latif Rashid, and met with top Kurdish authorities in the Kurdistan Region’s Erbil and Sulaimani.
The Iranian president’s visit saw the signing of 14 memoranda of understanding in various fields, which Sudani said “will represent a promising roadmap to enhance joint cooperations between the two countries.”
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