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Iraq sending team to US to seek deal on transactions with Iran

reporter 1222 — Tue, 28 Aug 2018 15:32:53 +0000

Iraq will send a delegation to the United States seeking an agreement on financial transactions with Iran, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said in his weekly news conference on Tuesday.

According to Reuters, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday that his country will send a delegation to the United States seeking an agreement on financial transactions with Iran following Washington’s re-imposition of sanctions on Tehran.

“We are not with economic sanctions against any country and that is our strategic position,” state television quoted Abadi as saying at a weekly news conference.

Reuters said that Iraqi government and central bank officials had said last week that the delegation will travel to Washington to ask for exemptions in applying the sanctions. They did not say when that trip would take place.

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Iranian FM spokesman unaware of reported Iraqi PM visit to Tehran

reporter 1222 — Sun, 12 Aug 2018 09:00:58 +0000

The Iranian Foreign Ministry Spokesman Bahram Ghasemi has told Iranian media that he did not have any knowledge of reported Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi’s visit to Iran.

“I have not received any prior notification or witnessed an official announcement on the visit” Bahram Ghasemi told Fars News Agency yesterday.

Prior to this, ‘Iraqi Alghad Press’ quoted an Iraqi source familiar with the matter that the Iraqi prime minister would visit Tehran in the coming days to discuss political issues, while an Iraqi official told French AFP news agency that al-Abadi will visit Tehran and Ankara in the coming week.

Meanwhile, Lebanese Arabic news channel Al-Mayadeen reported late Sunday that Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi will start a two-country tour to Tehran and Ankara on Monday.

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Iraq opposes U.S. sanctions on Iran but will abide by them: PM

reporter 1222 — Wed, 08 Aug 2018 05:45:33 +0000

Iraq does not agree with U.S. sanctions against Iran but will abide by them to protect its own interests, Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi said on Tuesday.

“As a matter of principle we are against sanctions in the region. Blockade and sanctions destroy societies and do not weaken regimes,” he said at a news conference.

“We consider them (sanctions on Iran) a strategic mistake and incorrect but we will abide by them to protect the interests of our people. We will not interact with them or support them but we will abide by them,” he added.

U.S. President Donald Trump pledged on Tuesday that firms doing business with Tehran would be barred from the United States, as new U.S. sanctions against Iran took effect.

The United States and Iran, increasingly at odds, are Iraq’s two biggest allies, and the sanctions put Abadi’s outgoing government in a difficult position.

Tuesday’s sanctions target Iran’s purchases of U.S. dollars, metals trading, coal, industrial software and the auto sector. Global oil prices rose on Tuesday on concern sanctions could cut world supply, although the toughest measures targeting Iran’s oil exports do not take effect for four more months.

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