Pyongyang, November 3 (KCNA) -- Iranian Foreign Minister Ali-Akbar Salehi in a press conference during his visit to Iraq on Monday scathingly rejected the U.S. moves to increase armed forces.

The U.S. is planning to increase military presence in the Middle East under the pretext of military cooperation after the U.S. troop withdrawal from Iraq, he charged.

Rejecting interference of outsiders in Iraq, he stressed that the Iraqis know better than anybody else how to run their country.