Shafaq News- Baghdad

Baghdad will not assume a mediating role in the ongoing tensions between Tehran and Washington, Iranian Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein said on Friday.

In an interview with Reuters on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference, Hussein confirmed that Iraq also rejected the use of violence against Iran.

Last January, caretaker Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani revealed in a televised interview that Baghdad had been working to arrange direct talks between the United States and Iran in the Iraqi capital. Al-Sudani cited Iraq’s balanced relations with both sides, and that US officials had expressed openness to dialogue in Baghdad, while Tehran agreed to engage in serious negotiations without dictates or threats.