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An Iranian trade center was opened on Wednesday in the Kurdistan Region’s second largest city of Sulaimaniya, with Iran’s assistant trade minister and local officials in attendance, according to AKnews. It is the second Iranian trade center in Kurdistan and it includes wholesale and retail sections for agricultural, technology, housing, and food products. Around 45 […]
Iran's new ambassador to Iraq said that trade between the one-time rivals will double in the near future, even as his country is under stringent international sanctions over its nuclear program, according to a report from BusinessWeek. The prediction by Hassan Dannaie Fir reflects the strengthening of relations between the two Shiite-led neighbors who fought […]
A former member of the Iraqi parliament has announced that Iraq lost oil wells in the border demarcation with Iran and Kuwait. Some other oil wells are located in the common Iraqi-Iranian borders in Faw and Khanaqin, but they are not divided between both parties. The Iraqi government has lost a great amount of its […]
Following last week's announcement that Iraq will import gas from Iran, the country's senior deputy oil minister confirmed on Monday that it has tol Iran that it is ready to allow the transit of Iranian natural gas destined for Syria and Mediterranean countries. Kareem Al Luaby gave the confirmation to Dow Jones Newswires by telephone […]
By Tariq Abdell, Founder & Chairman, Mesopotamia Insight. The opinions expressed here are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. I always believe that politics is the art of compromising, in other words, is knowing when and where to give or to ask. Alas, President Obama's letter, […]
A memorandum of understanding signed with Iraqi officials calls for the import of as much as 300 million cubic feet (8.6 million cubic meters) of gas per day from Iran, an Iranian director said. Javad Oji, a managing director at the National Iranian Gas Co (NIGC), said an Iranian delegation traveled to Iraq at the […]
Business opportunities and investment prospects in Iran and Iraq will be reviewed in a conference in Tehran on August 8. The Director of the Iranian Privatization Organization (IPO), Gholam-Reza Kord-Zanganeh, who is also secretary of the conference, said that they aim to facilitate an interaction and interchange of ideas and between the two countries' businesses. […]
The spokesman of the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) rejected remarks made by the Iraqi Oil Minister, Hussein Shahrestani, on Sunday about illegal oil trade through the Kurdistan Region. Shahrestani called on the KRG to justify its position regarding exporting oil to Iran, in a statement made to the Arabic radio channel Sawa. "In accordance with […]
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani met with an Iranian official on Sunday to discuss bilateral economic relations and ways to expand trade between the two countries, according to a presidential press release. “Talabani welcomed Ali Agha Muhammadi, the economic assistant to the first vice president of Iran, and his accompanying delegation, and expressed Iraq’s keenness on […]
Despite a pledge by Iraqi Kurdistan to crack down on the flow of fuel being smuggled to Iran, the only real impediment truck drivers say they face are long lines that force them to wait for days to cross, according to a report from Reuters. Perhaps around 100 tanker trucks corralled into groups of 10 […]
Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki called on Iranian companies to contribute in the reconstruction operations in Iraq, according to a statement of his office. “This came during al-Maliki’s meeting with Iranian Ambassador to Baghdad, Hussein Qomi [Hassan Kazemi Qomi] , at the end of his term in the country,” said the statement received by Aswat […]
A preliminary agreement was concluded between Qadisiyah local government and a group of Iranian companies to invest in the province, the director of the Investment Committee in Diwaniyah reported on Monday. "The Investment Committee and the head of Qadisiyah council met a delegation from a group of Iranian companies to discuss the possibility of investing […]
