The United States said Monday it encourages Iraq and Iran to have good relations as neighbors.
"Look, they're neighbors. They're going to have a relationship. We would encourage them to have a good, open, transparent, neighborly relationship," State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.
Moreover, the United States believes that the Iraqi government is going to act in the best interests of the Iraqi people, but is not going to take decisions "based on what they hear in Iran," McCormack said.
Iran's Secretary of Supreme National Security Council (SNSC) Saeed Jalili, during his meeting with visiting Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki on Sunday, said that the Islamic Republic was ready to use all its experiences to help restore peace and stability to Iraq.
Al-Maliki arrived in Teheran on Saturday evening for a three-day visit, the third one since he took office two years ago.
Iran and Iraq fought a war between 1980 and 1988 but their ties have warmed considerably since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-dominated regime in 2003. The first visit by an Iraqi prime minister to Iran since the U.S.-led invasion was made by Maliki's predecessor Ibrahim al-Jaafari in July 2005.
Source:Xinhua
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