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Iraqi ambassador to Iran Sa’ad Jawad Qandil told a trade conference in Tehran that Baghdad is in dire need of economic and technical helps by the Islamic Republic.

A senior local official in Iran’s Western province of Kordestan announced on Saturday that the country is capable of providing 300MW of electricity to the Northern Iraqi city of Sulaymaniyah.

Turkey’s first drilling vessel. Fatih. has already started searching for gas and oil in waters considered part of Cyprus’s exclusive economic zone.

Officials from Iran. Iraq and Syria signed an agreement to further increase the joint projects of the trio for developing trilateral transportation infrastructures.

Iran has exported some $13 billion worth of goods and services to neighboring Iraq in the last local calendar year (March 21. 2018-March 20. 2019). which marks a 37% increase in a year-on-year comparison.

Governor-General of Sulaymeniyeh Haval Abu Bakir underlined that the Iraqi Kurdistan region is determined to further expand ties and cooperation with Iran irrespective of Washington'.s opposition.

The US has continued with what it describes as a ‘maximum pressure’ policy against Iran.

The minutes include forming a central committee for the tripartite cooperation.

Iranian officials announced that the construction of the 32-kilometer railway connecting the city of Shalamcheh in Southwestern Iran to Basra in Southern Iraq will kick off in the next few months.

Tehran and Baghdad have already signed an agreement to resolve disagreements over Arvand Rud based on the 1975 Algiers Accord.