WANA (Jan 16) – Fouad Hussein, Iraq’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, is set to travel to Tehran to meet and hold talks with Iranian officials, including Iran’s Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi.

 

According to reports, the Iraqi foreign minister will meet with Araghchi on Sunday, January 18, 2026.

 

This will mark Fouad Hussein’s first official bilateral visit to Iran under the 14th Iranian administration. He previously visited Iran in late May this year to attend the Fourth Tehran Dialogue Forum, during which he also met and held talks with Araghchi.

 

Araghchi travelled to Iraq in 2024, where he met with Iraqi officials, including Fouad Hussein. The two foreign ministers also held talks in September 2025 on the sidelines of an emergency meeting of Islamic and Arab foreign ministers in Qatar, convened following the Israeli regime’s attack on the venue of a Hamas leaders’ meeting in Doha.

 

On January 6, 2026, Iran’s ambassador to Baghdad, Mohammad Kazem Al-e Sadegh, conveyed a message from Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi to Fouad Hussein during a meeting in Baghdad.

 

Meanwhile, last Saturday, Oman’s Foreign Minister Badr Albusaidi visited Tehran and held talks with Araghchi, President Masoud Pezeshkian, and Ali Larijani, Secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council.

 

In the past week, Iraq’s National Security Advisor Qassem al-Araji also held a telephone conversation with Ali Larijani.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein meets with Iran’s Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian in Tehran, Iran, September 13, 2023. Majid Asgaripour/WANA (West Asia News Agency)