0329 GMT March 09, 2021
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Iranian Ambassador to Iraq Iraj Masjedi and the neighboring Arab country’s Finance Minister Ali Abdul-Amir Allawi conferred on the releasing of Tehran’s frozen funds a day after it said $3b of the Islamic Republic’s frozen assets in other countries will be released soon.
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Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh said on Monday that the Pope Francis’ “constructive” trip to Iraq was made possible thanks to a “calm and secure Iraq”.
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President Hassan Rouhani reaffirmed Iran’s opposition to any foreign interference in Iraq, saying security, integrity, peace and tranquility in the Arab state are among top priorities of the Islamic Republic.
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Pope Francis, head of the Roman Catholic Church, held closed-door talks with Iraq’s prominent Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani on the second day of his visit to the Arab country.
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Pope Francis, making the first trip by a pontiff to Iraq, made an impassioned call on Friday for an end to the militant violence, fratricide and religious strife that has plagued the country for decades, saying peacemakers should finally be given a chance.
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Tehran and Baghdad have drafted a security agreement to be later signed by the Iranian and Iraqi interior ministers, said Iran’s deputy foreign minister on Wednesday.
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At least 10 rockets slammed into a military base in western Iraq hosting US-led coalition troops on Wednesday, security sources said, leaving one civilian contractor dead.
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Iran’s Energy Minister Reza Ardakanian said on Sunday that Baghdad is to release Tehran’s financial resources in line with an agreement earlier reached between the two countries.
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said he has emphasized Iran's commitment to Iraq’s stability in a meeting with his visiting Iraqi counterpart Fuad Huseein.
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Governor of the Central Bank of Iran Abdolnaser Hemmati and Chairman of the state-run Trade Bank of Iraq (TBI) Salem Chalabi discussed ways of using banking resources on Saturday.
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Shamkhani: US raid new round of ‘organized terrorism’
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Domestic Economy Desk
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Iraqi officials and religious scholars lambasted NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg’s latest remarks that the US-led military alliance plans to significantly increase its forces in the Arab country, describing the measure as unacceptable and unjustified.
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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said the alliance decided to expand a NATO training mission in Iraq from 500 to around 4,000 personnel while defense ministers of member states held off on making a final decision on NATO's 9,600-strong support mission in Afghanistan.
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