The Head of Iraq's Islamic Revolution Higher Council, Abdel-Aziz Al-Hakim, on Friday held a phone conversation with Iran's Secretary-General of National security Ali Larijani on Iran's nuclear row with Washington. According to a statement issued by the council, of which a copy was received by KUNA, Al-Hakim thanked Iran for taking into consideration his advice to engage into a dialogue with Washington over the nuclear issue. "We do not approve any plan for turning Iraq into a platform for conspiring against other countries," Al-Hakim said before a crowd of supporters at Sadr City. He called for getting rid of "armed gangs, whose aims extended to other countries." "We call on Iran's officials to engage into a frank and open dialogue with the Americans on issues regarding Iraq," he said. He stressed that he expected Iran, which always stood by Iraqi people, to reach agreement with the US over Iraqi issues.
However, the Iraqi Consensus Parliamentary Coalition, the largest such Sunni Muslim group in parliament, said it was opposed to any such negotiations and was not committed to implementing them.