IRNA Iraq Electricity Minister said that Iraqi National Electricity Company is to hold talks with an Iranian company called 'Sanir' to finalize Al-Debes new gas power plant in Kirkuk.
Luay al-Khatteeb in a statement announced that during his recent trip to Kirkuk, he ordered Iraqi national electricity company to finalize Al-Debes project with the ...
Press TV - At least seven people have lost their lives when remnants of the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group launched an attack against a residential area in Iraqs oil-rich northern province of Kirkuk.
A security source, speaking on condition of anonymity, told Arabic-language Baghdad Post news website that the extremists attacked the village ofAlbu ...
Press TV- Iraq says it will start exporting about 30,000 barrels per day (bpd) of oil from oil fields in its northern Kirkuk province to Iran before the end of January.
Iraqs Oil Minister Jabar al-Luaibi was quoted by media as saying that Kirkuks oil would be exported to Irans Kermanshah refinery by trucks.
This would be in line with an agreement ...
Tasnim Tehran and Baghdad have agreed in principle to export Kirkuk oil to Iran, according to the Iraqi oil ministry.
Iraqi Oil Minister Jabbar al-Luaibi said in a statement that 30,000-60,000 barrels of oil per day would be exported to Iran's western Kermanshah province.
The deal will be signed between Iraq's State Organization for Marketing ...
Press TV- Iran and Iraq have reportedly started talks over the shipment of crude oil from the fields around Kirkuk to the Kermanshah refinery inside the Iranian territory.
Reports quoted Alaa al-Mussawi, the director of Iraqs state-oil marketer State Organization for Marketing of Oil (SOMO), as saying in a statement that the Kermanshah refinery ...
IRNA Iranian lawmakers discussed the latest developments on the ground in the Iraqi Kurdistan region in Majlis National Security and Foreign Policy Commission session on Sunday.
The commission session was attended by former Iranian ambassador to Iraq Hassan Danaeifar, according to commission spokesman Hossein Naqavi Hosseini.
The former Iranian ...
FNA- Representative of the Iraqi Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) in Tehran Nazim Dabagh announced that the Kurdish leaders are now ready to resolve the problems created after the independence referendum through talks, lauding efforts made by Commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Major General Qassem Soleimani ...
Iranian Diplomacy |Hassan Hanizadeh: A three-day conflict broke out in Kirkuk between the Iraqi army and the Peshmerga forcesfollowing the Kurdish independence referendum that took place in late September. With the help of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, the Iraqi central government has turned out to be the winner in the skirmish which ended yesterday ...
Iranian Diplomacy | Sadegh Maleki: Political threats and opportunities are fluid in essence, but Massoud Barzani, President of the Kurdish Regional Government, seems to have forgotten this principle.
Wars and crises sometimes expedite formation of a collective identity. Thanks to the collective war against ISIS, an Iraqi identity that transcended ...
MNA Iranian Parliament's General Director for International Affairs Amir-Abdollahian posted on his Twitter account on Wednesday that a united Iraq is so close.
The mighty central government of Iraq will return Erbil to the united Iraq easier than Kirkuk, just within minutes, reads the latest tweet of Iranian Parliament's General Director for ...
IFP - IFP has taken a look at the front pages of Iranian newspapers on Wednesday, October 18, and picked headlines from 15 of them. IFP has simply translated the headlines and does not vouch for their accuracy.
The top story today was the remarks made by Iranian officials about the European Unions call for negotiation with Tehran on ...
Tasnim Iraqi troops have taken control of the city of Kirkuk and can handle the situation there single-handedly, a top Iranian general said.
Speaking at a conference in Tehran on Wednesday, President of the Supreme National Defense University of Iran General Ahmad Vahidi rejected the need for the presence of non-Iraqi forces in the city of ...
Press TV- A senior Iraqi military commander says Kurdish Peshmerga forces have pulled backed to the positions they held in June 2014, before the Daesh Takfiri terrorist group swept through the Arab country.
The commander told Reuters on Wednesday that the withdrawal came after the Kurds handed over their positions in the northwestern Nineveh ...
TASS- Iraqi President Fuad Maasum urged the Baghdad government and the Kurdish autonomy leadership to immediately launch a dialogue on overcoming the current crisis in an address televised by the Sky News - Arabia TV on Tuesday evening.
"I call on all sides of the conflict to immediately launch a dialogue on the basis of constitutional principles,...
Reuters - Oil prices rose on Wednesday, lifted by a fall in U.S. crude inventories and concerns that tensions in the Middle East could disrupt supplies.
Brent crude futures LCOc1, the international benchmark for oil prices, were at $58.27 at 0314 GMT, up 39 cents, or 0.7 percent from their last close - and a third above mid-year levels.
U.S. West ...
Press TV- The president of Iraqs Kurdistan has said the independence vote recently held throughout the region wont be in vain.
On Tuesday, Masoud Barzani further vowed to preserve what he referred to as the achievements of the Kurds despite their defeat in Kirkuk.
He went on to blame the setback on unilateral decisions by Kurdish politicians....
Al-Monitor- Iranian mediaand officials have expressed support for the Iraqi forces operation to recapture Kirkuk, but deny that Irans Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) played any role in it.
Announcing Tehrans support for the Iraqi governments operation against peshmerga forces in Kirkuk, Ali Akbar Velayati, a foreign policy adviser to Irans ...
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Iran has no role in Kirkuk operation: Leaders Aide
Ali Akbar Velayati, an international advisor to Irans Leader, has dismissed allegations of the Islamic Republics involvement in the Iraqi armys operation to retake the oil-rich city of Kirkuk from Kurdish forces.
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IFP- Ali Akbar Velayati, an international advisor to Irans Leader, has dismissed allegations of the Islamic Republics involvement in the Iraqi armys operation to retake the oil-rich city of Kirkuk from Kurdish forces.
Iran has no role in Kirkuk operation and most Iraqi Kurdish people are opposed to [KRG president] Masoud Barzanis ambitions, Velayati ...
Tasnim A member of Irans Expediency Council said the Kurdish Peshmerga forces withdrawal from the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk put an end to a dangerous plot hatched against regional security.
With the Kurdish forces retreat from Kirkuk today, the back of a Barzanis scheme against the regions security was broken, Ali Akbar Velayati said on Monday,...