"It follows that the primary objective of the Iranian president's visit to Iraq is to implement the security agreement between Tehran and Baghdad - to disarm the Iranian Kurdish parties based in the Kurdistan region and close their military camps," Keywan Faramarzi, a representative of Komala, one of the Iraq-based groups, told Middle East Eye.

Iran’s president, Masoud Pezeshkian, arrived in Iraq on Wednesday for his first trip abroad since taking office in July, a demonstration of the value the Iranians place on the strategic alliance with their neighbor as tensions rise in the region around them.