Posted on 07/06/2011 2:32:51 PM PDT by Cardhu
Iran and Iraq have signed six Memoranda of Understanding (MoU) to expand cooperation in various sectors.
The documents were signed by Iran's First Vice President Mohammad-Reza Rahimi and Iraq Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Wednesday.
“The high-ranking Iranian delegation's visit to Iraq relays the message of peace and friendship to all Islamic countries,” IRIBNews quoted Rahimi as saying.
“We are ready to cooperate with Iraq on joint projects in other countries,” Rahimi added.
The MoUs cover fields such as information technology, health and medication and culture.
Maliki said, “Iraq's infrastructures have been destroyed because of past wars and struggles, and we need Iran's presence in our country's reconstruction.”
He welcomed Iran's investments in Iraq, and said, “We believe expanding ties with the Islamic Republic of Iran, as a great country in our neighborhood, has a positive effect on Iraq's political and economic stability.”
Rahimi arrived in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad earlier on Wednesday for a six-day official visit.
Ahead of his trip to Iraq, Rahimi said Tehran is determined to increase the value of trade exchange with Baghdad to USD 20 billion and later to USD 30 billion over two phases in the future.
barack hussein al obama-Mission Accomplished.
Basically, we won Iraq for Iran.
“Basically, we won Iraq for Iran.”
That’s it in a nutshell, but we were SUPPOSED to win it for saudi arabia which wanted saddam out of the way because his allegiance was to the Hashemites and Jordan. We achieved that and weakened Jordan to the point it could not rise again as a voice of any consequence in the ME.
New president, new strategic alignment. It was always a surrogate war. obama chose the other side of the power struggle. We had no business over there in the first place...but we would have done much better without the brits. The American people do not understand Bush’s motivation any more than they understand obama’s. NEITHER were in our best interest...unless you consider saudi arabia a true and trustworthy ally.
Iraq is the crown jewel in the caliphate. saudi arabia tried several times to take over in iraq. It’s why the sunni insurgency finally aligned themselves with us and the shia aligned themselves with iran.
The Kurds will suffer for this. iran hates them and has conducted a genocidal progrom against them for many years in conjunction with Turkey. This is NOT a good thing.
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