Ahmadinejad May Visit Iraq

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Ahmadinejad May Visit Iraq
Associated Press | January 24, 2008

BAGHDAD - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Iraq, but no date has been set, the Foreign Ministry announced here Jan. 23. It would be the first visit to Iraq by a top Iranian leader.

Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abawi said the invitation to the Iranian leader was extended by Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd who has close relations with Iran's ruling clergy.

Iran had no immediate word on the visit.

The two Muslim neighbors fought a ruinous eight-year war in the 1980s that left an estimated 1 million people killed or wounded. Relations have improved since the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussen's Sunni-led regime.

Iran is overwhelmingly Shiite, while Iraq has a 60 percent Shiite majority that emerged from decades of marginalization to become the country's dominant force after Saddam's ouster.


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