in Iraq. In mid May, Iranian foreign minister Kamal Kharazi visited Iraq and Jaafari paid a visit to Iran in July. In November, Iraqi president Jalal Talabani visited Iran, becoming the first Iraqi head of state to visit Iran in almost four decades. Iran–Iraq relations have flourished since 2005 by the exchange of high level visits: Former Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki makes frequent visits, along with Jalal Talabani visiting numerous times, to help boost bilateral cooperation in all fields. A conflict occurred in December 2009, when Iraq accused Iran of seizing an oil well on the border. On April 24, 2011, Iran and Iraq signed an extradition accord. The high-level meeting by the justice ministers of both countries in Tehran followed in the aftermath of a raid by Iraqi forces on Camp Ashraf, home of the People's Mujahedin of Iran (MEK). The MEK is designated as a terrorist organization by Iran and Iraq. Iran has taken an increasingly salient role within the Iraqi government and security forces since the United States originally withdrew and ISIS rose to power. In Basra alone, there are numerous stories of Iranian militant factions harassing and kidnapping civilians. On September 7, 2018, several months of protest and arson erupted into an attack against the Iranian consulate within Iraq, where it was set ablaze by rocket fire. On 9 April 2019, a day after the United States placed Iran's IRGC in the list of "Foreign Terrorist Organizations", Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdel Mahdi said he had talked to all sides and tried to stop the designation. In August 2019, Iran seized an Iraqi oil tanker in the Gulf and detained seven sailors for "smuggling fuel for some Arab countries". Iraq denied any connection with the vessel and claimed to investigate the matter. A 2019 article by the New York Times revealed leaked information detailing "years of painstaking work by Iranian spies to co-opt the country's leaders, pay Iraqi agents working for the Americans to switch sides and infiltrate every aspect of Iraq's political, economic and religious life". In April 2022, Iraq and Iran secured an agreement to resume Iranian gas deliveries to Iraq in exchange for Baghdad repaying debts owed to Tehran. On June 26, 2022, Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa Al-Kadhimi said in Tehran, a day after traveling to Saudi Arabia in an effort to resurrect negotiations between the regional adversaries to end years of antagonism,