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By Anne-Laure Barbosa at Constellis Consulting Reporting remains almost completely interrupted in the provinces of Nineveh and Salahuddin, and the data available does not account for the large number of kidnappings and high levels of sectarian violence rumoured in territories held by ISIS. As the ISF continues its attempts at pushing north towards Tikrit from their […]
By John Lee. The Iranian Fars News reports that Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian (pictured) has dismissed suggestions that his country had dispatched Sukhoi fighter jets to Iraq. In an interview with the Iran-based Arabic-language Al-Alam on Sunday he said: "The Iraqis have not yet made any demands from the Islamic Republic of […]
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Iranian Deputy Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian gives a press conference in Moscow after talks on the situation in Iraq where jihadists seized vast territories.
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Fear of getting caught up in violence and difficulty getting visas to Iraq are affecting businesses in Jordan.
By John Lee. The pipeline that will carry natural gas from Iran to Iraq will be completed by the end of the current Iranian calendar year (started March 21, 2014), according to a report from Iran's PressTV. The Managing Director of the Iran Gas Engineering and Development Company, Alireza Gharibi, said 7 million cubic meters […]
From Al Jazeera. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. US President Barack Obama is weighing up how to deal with a Sunni-led rebellion in Iraq. The Obama administration is considering working with its longtime foe Iran, after fighters from the Islamic State […]
From AFP. Any opinions expressed are those of the authors, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. Shiite Iran offered Saturday to consider working with longtime foe the United States if it takes the lead in helping push back Sunni Arab militants who have seized a swathe of northern Iraq:
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari met the Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Hassan Danaei Far, on Wednesday. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations between the two countries, the political and security situations in the region and issues of common concern, following-up results of the joint technical meetings in the field of river and […]
ZSCo, the company in Iskandariya [Alexandria] (50 kilometers south-west of Baghdad) in which Iran Khodro (IKCO) cars are assembled, is now producing at a rate of 10 cars per hour, according to an announcement from IKCO. The company's CEO said: "[The] Geographical proximity of Iran and Iraq is considered as a noticeable advantage for IKCO […]
By John Lee. Gas from the South Pars field in Iran could be supplying power stations in the province of Basra within a year, reports UPI. A pipeline currently under construction will run from Asaluyeh to Iraq's southern city of 2 million people, and may later extend to Syria, depending on conditions "after the war" according […]
By John Lee. Iran have announced that drilling will begin next year at the Azar oil field, which is known as Badra on the Iraqi side of the border. On the Iraqi side, Badra is operated by Gazprom Neft. Saying that initial activity should yield some 30,000 bpd with a later target of 65,000 bpd, […]
By Reidar Visser. The following article was published by Reidar Visser, an historian of Iraq educated at the University of Oxford. It is reproduced here with the author’s permission. Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News. For the first time since the fall […]
