Iranian Transport Minister Moamud Hojati left for Iraq on Tuesday for a three-day visit as the two nations move to resolve their outstanding disputes, the state IRNA news agency said.
It said Hojati had crossed overland from the border and therefore had not broken the international air embargo on Baghdad that has been increasingly flouted in recent weeks by nations calling for an end to sanctions on Iraq.
Foreign Minister Kamal Kharazi disregarded the embargo when he flew into Iraq earlier this month for talks on resolving issues between the two nations left over from their 1980-1988 war.
It was the first visit to Baghdad by an Iranian foreign minister in a decade.
The presence of opposition forces on each other's territory and a dispute over POWs has kept the neighbors from signing a formal peace treaty ending the war.
But the two nations never broke off diplomatic relations even during the conflict, which left hundreds of thousands dead on both sides – TEHRAN (AFP)
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