Iran and Iraq signed an agreement to build pipelines for the transfer of Iraqi crude oil and oil products, Iranian oil ministry said.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei viewed deployment of occupying troops as the most important problem of Iraq, and further called on Iraqi Sunnis, Shiites, Arabs and Kurds to show enhanced unity and Solidarity.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki described the results of his visit to Iran as excellent.

An earthquake measuring 4.3 on the Richter scale jolted the city of Bojnourd in the northeastern Iranian province of Northern Khorassan.

Iraq is still in need of Iran’s humanitarian aids to fight against terrorism, Iraqi government spokesman stressed on Thursday.

Tehran’s provisional Friday Prayers leader Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani said the United States’ efforts to get rid of its humiliating situation in Iraq and Afghanistan would lead to nowhere unless it revises its wrong policies and attracts Iran’s positive view and assistance.

During the trilateral talks, the United States accepted its errors in Iraq and it should now make up for them, Iran’s Ambassador to Iraq and head of the Iranian delegation in talks with the US over Iraq said.

Iran and Iraq will sign a deal in the next few days to build a pipeline that would transfer crude from southern Iraqi oilfields to refineries in Iran, a senior Iranian official said yesterday.

Iran’s envoy at a conference on Iraq security in the Syrian capital denied accusations by the United States that Teheran is fueling Iraq’s violence.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari assessed the trilateral meetings between Iran, Iraq and the US as positive, and further called on Tehran and Washington to continue the talks.