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By Bijan Khajehpour, for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. For the past two decades, energy interconnectivity has been one of the pillars of Iran’s regional relations. From the early days of the so-called oil swap deals between Iran and Central Asia in the […]
By John Lee. Iraqi Deputy Trade Minister Walid Habib al-Helou has reportedly announced that Tehran and Baghdad will sign a new memorandum of understanding (MoU) in the near future. The Deputy Minister called for increased trade between Iran and Iraq, adding that the MoU will remove obstacles to trade. (Source: IRNA)
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iranian forces have shelled villages on the border with Iraq forcing hundreds of people to leave their homes. The Iranian government says they targeted the headquarters of a Kurdish separatist group. Al Jazeera’s […]
By Denise Natali for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003 and breakdown of the Iraqi state, ethno-sectarian partition has become a popular political mantra. The assumption is that a federal state based on three autonomous regions — […]
By John Lee. Iran and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) have reportedly agreed the technical details of a plan to build a pipeline that could transfer as much as 250,000 bpd of Kurdish oil to Iran. Taha Zangana (pictured), the KRG's deputy minister of natural resources, told Al Jazeera: "We [the KRG and Iran] have an […]
By John Lee. Kurdistan24 reports that the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Ministry of Agriculture has decided to impose a tax on some products imported from other parts of Iraq. KRG Minister of Agriculture and Water Resources, Abdulstar Majid, said that the his Department is aware that imposing a tax on goods within a country is […]
The Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister for Arab and African Affairs has asked Iraqi officials on Monday to help boost mutual trade ties by removing obstacles for Iranian traders. During his meeting with visiting Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs Nazar Khairallah, Hossein Amirabdollahian called for removal of obstacles encountered by the Iranian trade companies […]
By John Lee. Iran's gas contracts with Iraq have been put on hold due to the difficulties in Iraq, Iranian Petroleum Minister Bijan Namdar Zangeneh said on Thursday. "We have two gas contracts with Iraq and we are ready to export gas to Baghdad but they have some difficulty. It depends on Iraqi system," Zangeneh said. (Source: Sputnik)
By John Lee. Former U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has said that Iraqi Shi’ite officials have complained of Iran’s interference in their country’s affairs, saying the militias backed by Tehran might turn against each other in the future over a dispute on oil. In an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, he added: "[Iraqis] […]
By Mustafa Saadoun for Al-Monitor. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iran's Quds Force Commander Qasem Soleimani has stirred a great deal of controversy in Iraq, where people have started arguing over whether his role is a positive or a negative one. Some Iraqi youths […]
Iran dispatched the first cargo of its gas oil to Iraq’s Kurdistan region on Wednesday, Alireza Ashnagar Iran’s Kordestan province deputy governor general for political, security and social affairs said. He noted that 290,000 liter of gas oil were sent by 10 tankers to the Iraqi Kurdistan region in a bid to enhance living condition […]
The Chairman of Iran-Iraq Chamber of Commerce, Yahya Ale Eshaq, has called for increased investment and trade with the southern provinces of Iraq, including Basrah. Iraq's Basra Province is a good market for export of Iranian commodities including oil, gas, food, building materials, technical and engineering services, he added. The official referred to the resolution […]
