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The story: Masoud Pezeshkian has become the first sitting Iranian president to visit Iraqi Kurdistan. The historic visit entailed meetings with high-ranking officials in both Erbil and Sulaimaniyah, balancing the two ruling Kurdish parties. It sparked additional local attention given Pezeshkian’s fluency in the Kurdish language. The trip signals a warming of relations less than a year after Iran attacked claimed Israeli targets in Erbil with ballistic missiles.
The coverage: Pezeshkian arrived in Baghdad on Sept. 11, meeting with top Iraqi officials including Prime Minister Muhammad Shia’ Al-Sudani. While there, he...
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