Iran Press/ Iran news: The President of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Masoud Pezeshkian, left Tehran for Iraq early on Wednesday.
This is President Pezeshkian's first foreign trip to another country.
The first vice president and the representative of the Supreme Leader saw off the president.
Pezeshkian will visit Baghdad as his first official visit outside the country and at the official invitation of the Prime Minister of Iraq Mohammed Shia' Al Sudani.
He is scheduled to meet with the highest-ranking Iraqi officials including the president Abdul Latif Rashid, the prime minister Al Sudani, and the parliament speaker Mohsen Al-Mandalawi.
Pezeshkian is set to meet with Iranian businesspeople living in a neighboring country.
Additionally, he has plans to visit Erbil, the capital of the Kurdistan Region, at the official invitation of the Region's head, Nechirvan Barzani, and engage in discussions with the Kurdish authorities.
Furthermore, he intends to visit another significant Kurdish city, Sulaymaniyeh, in northern Iraq.
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