Iraq's official news agency, Yasser Abdulzahra al-Hajjaj, Iraq's ambassador to Iran, confirmed that the secret visit of Iraqi Prime Minister Ali Falah al-Zaidi to Tehran on Friday, November 6, was "in order to reduce tensions and prevent the escalation of the war in the region."
The "Tasnim" news agency, a media outlet affiliated with the Revolutionary Guards, reported, citing knowledgeable sources, that Iraqi Prime Minister Ali al-Zaidi, after speaking with Donald Trump and Tom Barak, met with the Prime Minister of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Masoud al-Badisian, and with the Speaker of the Parliament, Kehmad Bahar 5, on Friday November 5, Kehmad Bahar, November 5.
Tasnim also wrote: "These sources say that Falah Fiyaz, the head of the Iraqi Shaabi Sha'd, and Hadi Al-Amiri, the commander of the Badr organization, accompanied Ali al-Zaidi, the Iraqi prime minister, on this trip."