{"id":8809,"date":"2024-09-11T21:42:59","date_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8809"},"modified":"2024-09-11T21:42:59","modified_gmt":"2024-09-11T15:57:59","slug":"iran-president-says-14-agreements-signed-with-iraq-to-expand-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/iran-president-says-14-agreements-signed-with-iraq-to-expand-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran president says 14 agreements signed with Iraq to expand ties"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Iran&#8217;s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, announced that over a dozen agreements were signed with Iraq on Wednesday during his visit to the neighbouring country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fourteen cooperation memorandums were signed between Iran and Iraq, which is the starting point of the expansion of cooperation,&#8221; Pezeshkian said, standing alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani.<\/p>\n<p>On his first visit abroad since taking office, Pezeshkian also said he had discussed with his Iraqi host &#8220;strategic and long-term plans that will lead to greater cooperation between the two countries&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If we are together, we will avoid falling into the fire,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ties between Iran and Iraq, both Shiite-majority countries, have grown closer since the US-led invasion of 2003 toppled the Sunni-dominated regime of Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein.<\/p>\n<p>Pezeshkian has vowed to make relations with neighbouring countries a priority as he seeks to ease Iran&#8217;s international isolation and mitigate the impact of US-led sanctions on its economy.<\/p>\n<p>Iran has become one of Iraq&#8217;s leading trade partners, and wields considerable political influence in Baghdad, where its Iraqi allies dominate parliament and the current government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran&#8217;s new president, Masoud Pezeshkian, announced that over a dozen agreements were signed with Iraq on Wednesday during his visit to the neighbouring country. &#8220;Fourteen cooperation memorandums were signed between Iran and Iraq, which is the starting point of the expansion of cooperation,&#8221; Pezeshkian said, standing alongside Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani. On his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8810,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8809","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8809"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8811,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8809\/revisions\/8811"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}