Barzani met Iranian ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qomi in Baghdad. The two men discussed the issue of bilateral relations between Iraqi’s Kurdish regional government and the Islamic Republic among other topics.
Qomi, who was previously Iran’s charge d’affaires in Iraq, is a veteran officer of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and was once the IRGCs liaison to Hezbollah in Lebanon.
The United States and Iraqi officials routinely blame Tehran for aiding Shiite militias responsible for dozens of assassinations in Iraq on a daily basis.
