Iranian President Hassan Rouhani held talks with Iraq’s top Shia cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in the holy city of Najaf in what is said to be a historic meeting on the final day of his landmark visit to the neighboring Arab state. Rouhani sat down with Ayatollah Sistani ...
Tehran and Baghdad have hailed Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s historic three-day visit to Iraq as a “turning point” in efforts to strengthen “strategic” cooperation between the two neighbors based on non-interference in each other’s internal affairs. In a joint statement released during Rouhani’s landmark visit to Iraq, Iran and ...
