Zargham Hosseini, representative of Sayyid Ammar al-Hakim and the NWM in Tehran, met with IRNA’s chief Ali Naderi here in Tehran on Thursday.
Naderi said that expansion of political and economic ties with Iraq is Iran’s priority in foreign policy, because this is of strategic important to Tehran.
Good neighborliness and goodwill have always constituted the basis of Iran’s relationship with Iraq, Naderi noted.
He mentioned Arabic IRNA’s influence in the countries in the region, underlining that IRNA’s position as a reliable source can be leveraged in improving Iran-Iraq ties.
Elsewhere in the meeting, Hosseini said that Iran-Iraq relations have always been important and Iraqi media have tried to expand those ties.
He called for contribution of Iranian and Iraqi media to held the two nations to further their relations.
The Iraqi political warned against diving Iranian and Iraqi Shias which is a policy pursued by some groups and said that this should be handled through cooperation between the two countries.
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