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The US suggested it will oppose the release of billions of dollars in Iranian funds from South Korea until Tehran returns to full compliance with a nuclear deal.
Despite its immense oil and gas reserves, Iraq remains dependent on imports to meet its energy needs, and neighbouring Iran currently supplies a third of its gas and electricity.
Ibrahim Eissa has said Saudi Arabia funds the Islamic State group and has "corrupted the minds of Egyptians", as the Egyptian media escalates its recent attacks against the Kingdom.
Iraq PM Al-Sudani met Iran's President Masoud Pazeshkian in Tehran to bolster energy ties, as Iraq struggles against blackouts and dependency on Iranian gas.
Israel's army chastised Iran for allegedly providing hundreds of millions of dollars to Lebanese movement Hizballah, saying the funds could have instead bought subscriptions to dating app Tinder.
US sanctions on Iranian oil and gas, on which Iraq is reliant on have hampered Baghdad's payments for imports, putting it in heavy arrears and leading Tehran to retaliate by cutting gas flows regularly.
Iran, Russia and the US reacted positively to a first day of talks aimed at rescuing an international agreement on Tehran's nuclear programme.
China is the world's only major importer of Iranian oil despite sanctions that former US President Donald Trump reimposed on Tehran's petroleum exports in 2018.
Funds set up by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's wife, and cousin Rami Makhlouf, are receiving tens of millions of dollars in aid from the UN, a British newspaper claimed.
Reflecting the Middle East's often-complex diplomatic wranglings, the football associations of Saudi Arabia and Iran have clashed over the choice of neighbouring country in which they will settle their scores.