Iraq’s Kurdish Regional administration head due in Tehran

Head of the Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) in Northern Iraq Massoud Barzani is scheduled to visit Tehran  on October 12, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported.

KRG Prime Minister Nechervan Barzani is scheduled to accompany the KRG head during the two-day visit.

The KRG officials are expected to discuss bilateral ties in political, economic and security areas, as well as the fight against terrorism with senior Iranian officials.

The reports regarding Barzani's Tehran visit appeared for the first time during the visit of Iran's Intelligence Minister Mahmoud Alavi to the Northern Iraq in mid-May.

An official with the Kurdistan Regional Government earlier suggested that the KRG and Iran had agreed to export KRG's crude oil through Iran.

For several years, Iraqi KRG and Iran have been in talks to construct a pipeline that would transport the northern Iraq’s oil to the Iranian market. However, the negotiations have lagged so far as the regional administration in northern Iraq instead focused on developing an oil export route through Turkey.