Iran urgent and strikingly sent  on Tuesday, 7th - Oct. special plane which took Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, Iraq's parliament speaker to Tehran. Mashhadani, said that his visit to Tehran aimed at listening  to Iran's view on the Security Agreement between Iraq and the United States, the which  Iran disagreed with unless resolving its important hot files with Washington. Al-Mashhadani had  said that technical problems were the main reason for the postponement of his visit to Tehran the day before, when Iranian airport authorities rejected to let the plane inside which he was traveling to land thereon. Observers interpreted that event as a deliberate insult to Al-Mashhadani, who was earlier reported to have had a telephone call with U.S. President George W. Bush on assurances to ensure the passage of the Convention even before  there can be Iranian satisfaction.  Al-Mashhadani, is among those  backed by Iran and its prominent leaders in Iraq since he took office more than two years ago. Iranian political source in Paris told our correspondent that the Iranian political leadership had spoken ill to their  intelligence and the air force's officials for their  decision not to allow the plane of Al-Mashhadani to land in Tehran that Iran had been eager to receive  a senior official from Iraq in a time it was receiving  american top security official and politician in a  negotiation about  the Security Convention in Baghdad. The Iranian diplomat, who asked not to be named, said Tehran was adhering to keep close friendships with the Iraqi politicians belonging to  forces and blocs outside the umbrella of the ruling Shiites Alliance, which suffers  a stage of  worrying  fragmentation and deeply divisions lately before  the elections in the provinces. 

     Al-Mashhadani had arrived on  Tuesday, 7th - Oct. at Mehrabad International Airport in Tehran  and was received by Chairman of the National Security Committee and Foreign Policy at Islamic Shura Council, Aladdin Brojerdi. 

      The official Iranian news agency (IRNA) quoted  from  Al-Mashhadani that the draft of  Security Convention had been handed over to the Iraqi cabinet, and it will, in case of ratification, be  passed to  the parliament for the final approval. 

     "If parliament approved the project, then it will be passed to  Presidency of the Republic, and in case of final ratification  of the Presidency it will acquire  legality. "he added.

      "but in case this project faces any opposition at any of the above mentioned phases, it will then go back to square one." he eventually said.

 

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