Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has accepted an invitation to visit Baghdad, according to Iraq's Foreign Ministry.Relations between the countries have improved since the 2003 ouster of Saddam Hussein's Sunni-led regime in Iraq. Shiites make up a majority of the population in Iraq and Iran, and the two nations have cultural, religious and economic connections.
Meanwhile, a top police official in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and two other Iraqi officers were killed Thursday by a suicide bomber wearing a police uniform, Iraqi and U.S. authorities said.One of the dead was al-Jubouri's personal escort, police said.
A CNN stringer reported that government buildings, houses, a college and a hospital are nearby. The blast shattered windows at the hospital. The U.S. military also said several cell phone towers were knocked out and some Iraqi soldiers were among the wounded.
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Having Iraq and Iran starting to stop fighting brings us closer to world peace. Even though world peace is just like Communism ( it only looks good on paper) the chances of it happening increase when two countries who fought an eight year war can meet together again. Hopefully, no one will get hurt in the process.
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