Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki arrived in Baghdad on Saturday for an official visit, the state-run television of Iraqia reported.
Mottaki is expected to meet with the Iraqi leaders to discuss issues of common interests and means to promote bilateral ties, the report said.
It is Mottaki's second visit to Baghdad in the year after his visit in February, during which he made the first official visit by Iranian top officials to the autonomous region of Kurdistan in northern Iraq, reported Xinhua.
The visit comes as Iraq is on the third day of a three-day mourning announced earlier by its government for the death of the leading Iraqi Shiite cleric and politician, Abdul Aziz al-Hakim who died on Wednesday in a Tehran hospital where he was receiving treatment for lung cancer.
Hakim is expected to be buried on Saturday at the Shiite cemetery of Najaf after being taken to the holy shrines in Karbala, some 110 km south of Baghdad.
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