According to the Iraqi prime minister's office, Iran's top security official signed a deal with Baghdad on Sunday for the "protection" of their shared border, months after Tehran assaulted Kurdish opposition groups in northern Iraq.
Iran has repeatedly charged that some Iranian Kurdish militias operating camps and rear bases in Iraq's autonomous Kurdistan region serve US or Zionist objectives.
In November, Iran launched cross-border missile and drone operations against a number of the organisations operating in northern Iraq, accusing them of igniting the massive protests that had been sparked by the September death in captivity of Iranian Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
According to a statement, Qassem Al-Araji and Ali Shamkhani, the head of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, inked the deal when they were both in Baghdad.
It involves "coordination over the protection of shared borders," and will also see the "strengthening of collaboration in several sectors of security," the announcement from the office of Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani underlined.