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Iraqi PM visits Saudi Arabia & Iran to discuss regional stability

by Arshad Khan
June 27, 2022
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Iraqi PM visits Saudi Arabia & Iran to discuss regional stability
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Iraq over past year hosts five rounds of talks between Riyadh & Tehran.

TEHRAN: Iraq’s prime minister met with leaders in rivals Saudi Arabia and Iran on Sunday, discussing regional stability as part of Baghdad’s efforts to mediate between the two Middle East heavyweights.

Mustafa al-Kadhemi visited Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi in Tehran, after earlier meeting with Saudi Arabia’s de facto leader Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Saudi city of Jeddah — pushing forward a bid to reconcile the foes that have had no diplomatic ties since 2016.

Raisi appeared to welcome the mediation bid, saying: “We stressed the need for regional leaders to negotiate with one another to resolve the region’s problems.”

Iran and Iraq “believe that peace and tranquillity in the region depend on the role of all regional leaders,” he added in a news conference with Kadhemi.

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Raisi welcomed an April ceasefire in Yemen — where Tehran and Riyadh back opposing sides in the seven-year civil war.

President Raisi : Top Iranian, Iraqi officials have deep, serious will to develop relations in all fields https://t.co/a1rdTpCauN pic.twitter.com/WXXVA3h84b

— Government of the Islamic Republic of Iran (@Iran_GOV) June 26, 2022

But he criticised all forms of rapprochement with Israel, amid hints that an upcoming visit by US President Joe Biden to Riyadh could herald improved relations between the kingdom and the Jewish state.

“The normalisation of relations with the Zionist regime or the presence of strangers in the region will not resolve any problems in the region, but rather aggravate them,” Raisi said.

Israel established diplomatic ties with the UAE, Bahrain, and Morocco in 2020 as part of the US-brokered Abraham Accords.

Kadhemi said that he and Raisi had “agreed on the need to… preserve regional calm and fight food insecurity”.

Iran and Saudi Arabia support rival sides in several conflict zones around the region.

‘Reconciliation is near’

Iraq has over the past year hosted five rounds of talks between Riyadh and Tehran, with the last session held in April.

Kadhemi said at the time he believed that “reconciliation is near” between the rivals, a further reflection of shifting political alignments across the region.

During Kadhemi’s meeting Sunday with Prince Mohammed, the two addressed “bilateral relations and opportunities for joint cooperation”, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

#صور_واس | جانب من اجتماع سمو #ولي_العهد في قصر السلام بجدة مع رئيس الوزراء في جمهورية #العراق.#واس pic.twitter.com/MymtnLtx8x

— واس الأخبار الملكية (@spagov) June 25, 2022

“They exchanged points of view on a number of issues that would contribute to supporting and strengthening regional security and stability,” it added.

On Saturday, an Iraqi cabinet source said that Kadhemi’s trip “comes in the context of talks that Riyadh and Tehran recently held in Baghdad”.

The source said those talks “represented a road map for mending relations and returning to the right course of strengthening bilateral relations” between Saudi Arabia and Iran.

Sunni Muslim Saudi Arabia and Shiite-majority Iran have had no diplomatic ties for six years, since Iranian protesters attacked Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran after the kingdom executed Shiite cleric Nimr al-Nimr.

Riyadh responded by cutting relations with Tehran.

In early March, Prince Mohammed said his country and Iran were “neighbours forever”, and that it was “better for both of us to work it out and to look for ways in which we can coexist”.

Riyadh also has concerns about Tehran’s nuclear ambitions, while Iran has always denied wanting a nuclear arsenal.

After his arrival in the kingdom, Kadhemi performed the minor pilgrimage, known as umra, in the holy city of Mecca, according to pictures released by his office.

#PICTURES: #Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi (@MAKadhimi) performed Sunday #Umrah rituals. Upon his arrival at the Grand Mosque, he was received by a number of officials from the General Presidency for the Affairs of the Two Holy Mosques.https://t.co/sM70pxhkun pic.twitter.com/Wc3JM6uLSu

— Saudi Gazette (@Saudi_Gazette) June 26, 2022
Tags: Crown Prince Mohammed bin SalmanIranIraqMiddle EastRegional stabilitySaudi Arabia
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