Relations between Iran and Iraq, both Shiite-majority countries, have grown closer over the past two decades. Tehran is one of Iraq’s leading trade partners, and wields considerable political influence in Baghdad where its Iraqi allies dominate parliament and the current government. Iran’s President Masoud Pezeshkian will visit neighbouring Iraq Pezeshkian will head a high-ranking Iranians delegation to Baghdad to meet senior Iraqi officials. Is this the steps towards uniting the middle east ?

