Iran's Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will visit Baghdad soon in what will be the first-ever visit of an Iranian president to Iraq, a state television channel said on its Web site Monday. The invitation for Ahmadinejad came during a recent visit here by the Iraqi prime minister, Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki was quoted as saying on the Web site of English Press TV. The date of Ahmadinejad's visit to Baghdad has not been fixed yet but would be soon announced, Mottaki said. Nouri al-Maliki officially invited Ahmadinejad while in Tehran earlier in August. The three-day visit was seen as a boost of Iranian support for al-Maliki.
