Iraq’s Prime Minister Mohammed Shia’ al-Sudani has traveled to Iran’s capital Tehran for talks on regional developments and issues of mutual concern and interest. 

Sudani’s aircraft touched down in Tehran on Wednesday, when he was officially welcomed by Finance Minister Abdol-Nasser Hemmati before paying a visit to the capital’s Sa’ad Abad Historical and Cultural Complex, where he met with President Masoud Pezeshkian.

The ceremony featured broadcasting of the countries’ national anthems, after which the officials introduced their respective senior delegations to each other.

The Iraqi official has undertaken the one-day visit at the head of a high-ranking delegation.

According to a statement by Sudani’s office, the prime minister will discuss bilateral relations and regional developments with Iranian officials.

The trip comes in response to one paid by Pezeshkian to Iraq last year, during which he visited the Arab country’s capital Baghdad, the holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, the southern city of Basra, and the country’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region.

Sudani is visiting Iran amid the countries’ efforts at pursuing the case of the United States 2020 assassination of Iran’s former top anti-terror commander, Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

It also takes place amid the nations’ joint endeavor towards fighting terrorism waged by Western and Israel-backed outfits, and Baghdad’s demands that the US and the forces led by Washington leave the Iraqi soil as decreed by the Iraqi parliament following General Soleimani’s assassination.

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