Iranian Defence Minister Amir Hatami spoke to his Iraqi counterpart and remarked: “we want to give Iraq all our capacities and we want to become strategic partners and turn our relations into a successful model of cooperation”. The Iraqi Defence Minister also met with Iran’s military attaché in Baghdad, who expressed “Iran’s readiness to expand cooperation with Iraq, especially in the military and defence fields”. The two also reportedly discussed “the status of terrorism and the recent movement of ISIS as well as boosting the Intelligence Exchange Center for the fight against terrorism [with the cooperation of Iran, Russia, Syria and Iraq]”.