The Iraqi prime minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi established a workgroup tasked with coordinating efforts with Iran to help Iraqi power plants using Iranian gas.
The Office of the Iraqi Prime Minister in a communique announced that Al-Kadhimi on Sunday chaired a meeting with the caretaker of the Iraqi Electricity Ministry and listened to their predictions on the demand for electricity in the country during the next 6 months, and the electricity Iraq can produce now..
Al-Kadhimi later commissioned a workgroup and asked it to visit Iran and remove the obstacles hindering the supply of gas to Iraqi electricity power plants.
Earlier this month, Iraqi Electricity Minister Adel Karim had said that Iraq had not been successful in importing electricity from the southern Persian Gulf Arab countries and will need to import gas from Iran at least for the next couple of years.