posishgan during his visit also met with influential kurd figures, including masud barazani. he has also met with patriotic union of kurdistan party officials in the iraqi region. pesishian's visit to iraq started on wednesday when he held meetings with the iraqi president and prime minister in baghdad. in our news review program, we discuss the significance of this official visit by masud pazashkaan to iraq and it's semi-autonomous region of kurdistan. let's take a listen to what our guests had to say on how this historic visit can improve iran-iraq relations. juring us out for the program is uh mhammed political analyst joining us from beirot and mohammed khatibi from our press tv west asia desk joining us out our tehron uh studios gentlemen like to welcome you both to the program here i guess uh we'll start with our own west asia desk extraordinaire mr muhammad khatib hello uh muhammad hope you're doing well the prow uh esteemed colleague, what is the significance of strong ties between iraq and iran for tehran, and how do good ties with iraq's semi-autonomous kurdisan reg

barazani actually pointed out that the islamic republic of iran is a neighbor of iran and is actually a neighbor of iraq and also has a common border with the kurdistan region. they are looking to increase security in this area. dealing with terrorist and separatist groups that iran intends to pursue seriously. sultan farrukh, now the question that arises is whether the kurdistan region acts independently from the republic of iraq in the field of security and political relations with our country or not, these communications and coordination with the central government. is there and this incident that happened , in fact, the transfer of the group and their moving away from the border was coordinated by the iraqi government , it happened and that in fact stability, peace and security in iraq will increase stability and peace and security in iran, so we are looking for we want to expand the communication between the countries, even we have seen that mr. president mentioned the discussion of the union of islamic states in this trip, as in fact , the experience of the european union and to

agreement with tehran. during his visit also met with the influential kurd figures, including masud barazani. he also met with the patriotic union of kurdistan party officials in the iraqi region. visit to iraq started on wednesday when he held meetings with the iraqi president and prime minister in baghdad. and at least three iranian police officers have been killed in a terrorist attack in the southeastern province of sistan in baluchistan. according to the provincial prosecutor, number of gunmen opened fire on members of the iranian border guard a gas station in the town of miar jave, killing three of them and injuring a citizen. the official added that legal case has been opened for the attack and measure. have been taken to identify the perpetrators, the so-called jeish terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the deadly assault, the group has been behind several terrorist attacks on iranian security forces in sistan and baluchistan province during recent years. merjava is close to the border with pakistan and has been the site of frequent clashes between iranian security forces a