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Javad Zarif's visit to neighbouring Iraq follows a decision by Washington to deploy additional troops to the region.
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for an unannounced visit.
Iraq is set to send delegations to Washington and Tehran in an attempt to ease tensions between the two rivals.
A UN team investigating the massacre of Iraq's Yazidi minority and other atrocities committed by IS have excavated 12 mass graves.
Iraqi officials have been trying to reassure US diplomats after a Katyusha rocket landed near the US embassy in Baghdad.
Iraq's Oil Minister Thamer al-Ghadban condemned a move by Exxon to evacuate its staff from the country, calling it a political, not security, issue.
Bahrain is ordering all of its citizens to immediately leave Iraq and Iran, amid rising tensions in the Persian Gulf.
The US on Wednesday ordered all nonessential government staff to leave Iraq, with both Germany and the Netherlands suspending their military assistance programs in the country shortly afterwards.
Germany has suspended training operations in Iraq, hours after the US State Department decision to remove all non-emergency staff from its embassy in Baghdad and consulate in Erbil.
The international coalition against Islamic State group is not feeling a real threat from Iran, its spokesperson has said.