Masoud Pezeshkian arrived in Iraqi Kurdistan Thursday on a visit hailed by the regional president as the first by an Iranian president to the autonomous region.Pezeshkian's visit to Iraq is his first trip abroad since he took office in July.

The Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian has told local Iraqi Kurdish media that he will visit the Kurdish region in northern Iraq, adding that his government will try to bolster ties between the Region.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian vowed on Thursday to “resolve problems” with the Iraqi Kurdistan Region. Pezeshkian visited Kurdistan on the second day of his official trip to Iraq that he kicked off on Wednesday.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian arrived Thursday in Iraqi Kurdistan to meet the autonomous region's leaders, on the second day of a visit aimed at deepening ties with the neighbouring country.It is Pezeshkian's first foreign trip abroad since he took office in July.

"It follows that the primary objective of the Iranian president's visit to Iraq is to implement the security agreement between Tehran and Baghdad - to disarm the Iranian Kurdish parties based in the Kurdistan region and close their military camps," Keywan Faramarzi, a representative of Komala, one of the Iraq-based groups, told Middle East Eye.

Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian began his foreign tour with a visit to Iraq, where he signed agreements focusing on security and the economy. The two countries also aimed to find new ways to handle debt payments and share water resources.