Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi made an unannounced visit to Tehran to discuss Iraq’s efforts to limit regional tensions, Iraq’s ambassador to Iran, Yasser Abdul Zahra Al-Hajjaj, said.
Al Arabiya reported al-Zaidi raised an Iraqi plan in a phone call, after which President Donald Trump backed it and asked the prime minister to take proposals to Tehran as a mediator. The report did not give the plan’s terms or a ceasefire timetable.
Two Iraqi officials told The Associated Press that al-Zaidi delivered a message from Trump during the visit. They said Iran insisted it would make no concessions in negotiations.
The Iraqi effort coincides with a separate diplomatic track involving Qatar. Al Jazeera reported that Qatar’s prime minister delivered a ceasefire proposal to Trump, a development covered in EconoTimes’ earlier report on Qatar’s proposal. After meeting the Qatari leader Monday, Trump told reporters he saw progress toward ending the war but left open further U.S. military action if circumstances changed, the Associated Press reported.
