Iran shares nuclear report with Iraq
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said July 27 that he had presented a report on this month’s landmark deal on Iran’s nuclear energy program to Iranian-born Shiite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in southern Iraq. At a joint press conference held in Iraq, where Zarif is currently on a days-long visit, the Iranian minister said his […]Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said July 27 that he had presented a report on this month’s landmark deal on Iran’s nuclear energy program to Iranian-born Shiite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani in southern Iraq.
At a joint press conference held in Iraq, where Zarif is currently on a days-long visit, the Iranian minister said his report to al-Sistani covered “the progress of ongoing negotiations [over as-yet-unresolved issues], as well as the challenges” that Iran continues to face. Al-Sistani, for his part, told reporters that international cooperation was still necessary “to counter terrorism and extremism,” in reference to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) militant group, which remains in control of large parts of Iraq and Syria.
