Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Sunday said Tehran is “pleased” with the evacuation of American forces from the Ain al-Asad Air base in western Iraq, Anadolu reports. Addressing a joint press conference with his Iraqi counterpart Fuad Hussain in Tehran after delegation-level talks, Araghchi said the handover of the base to Iraqi forces is a sign of “the strengthening of independence, stability, and political sovereignty in Iraq.” The Iraqi government on Saturday confirmed the complete withdrawal of US forces from the base in Al-Anbar governorate and its transfer to the Iraqi security forces under a bilateral agreement between the two countries signed in September 2024. The base was attacked by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in January 2020, […]