Iraqi PM meets Iran’s president tomorrow

Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al Kadhemi will meet Iran’s president in Tehran tomorrow to discuss issues including energy and Iran-Saudi relations.

The visit will mark Al Kadhemi’s first meeting with Ebrahim Raisi since the ultraconservative president took office last month, and comes ahead of Iraq’s October 10 legislative polls. Al Kadhemi will raise “issues of security, energy, and relations between Saudi Arabia and Iran” with Raisi, a government source said.

Iraq is highly dependent on Iranian imports, and the Islamic republic supplies a third of Iraq’s gas and electricity needs. However, Baghdad currently owes Tehran six billion dollars for energy supplied.