Ali Shamkhani, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council and the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG) Prime Minister Nechirvan Barzani met on Monday in Tehran to discuss developments in the region and the future of Iraq and the Region’s possible cooperation with central government in Baghdad. Shamkhani believed that Takfirist terrorists now roaming parts of Iraq and Syria posed a real and grave threat to regional and global security, which should be seriously addressed by close cooperation of countries in the region as their first agenda,” he said.