Iran FM visits Iraq to discuss Syria on first foreign trip


  • World
  • Sunday, 08 Sep 2013

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Iran's new foreign minister, Javad Zarif, visited Iraq on Sunday to discuss what he called the "dangerous situation" in Syria and the wider region.

After more than two years of civil war, U.S. President Barack Obama is trying to drum up support for limited strikes on Syria in response to a chemical weapons attack that Washington blames on the government of Bashar al-Assad.

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