U.S. Seeking Talks with Iran -- Iran Official
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Washington wants to hold direct talks  with Tehran, with which it broke ties 24 years ago, to discuss  a number of issues including the Islamic state's nuclear  program, a senior Iranian security official said on Tuesday.
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A senior Iranian official said Monday that cooperation and not threats were needed in the dispute over Tehran's nuclear program as he started a European tour to try to head off US efforts to haul his government ...
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The US treasury department reveals that one of its officials took part in rare talks with Iranian officials last month.
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Iran warned the United States on Sunday  not to attack its nuclear facilities and said talks with Europe  might produce a deal to defuse the dispute over its alleged  covert ambitions to build atomic weapons.
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After five days of intense internal deliberations, Iranian officials met with European envoys here Thursday to seek "clarifications" on a proposed deal that would require Tehran to indefinitely suspend a pivotal aspect of its nuclear energy program that could be converted to military use, Western diplomatic sources here said.
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The U.S. has recently shared sensitive information with the International Atomic Energy Agency on key aspects of Iran's nuclear program that Washington says shows Tehran was directly engaged in trying to make an atomic weapon, diplomats told The Associated Press on Thursday.
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Iran is studying a request from Baghdad for another round of talks between U.S. and Iranian officials and a decision may take more than two weeks, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Monday.
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Washington is sending a veteran Middle East hand. Tehran's envoy is a British-educated diplomat considered one of Iran's top analysts of the West. Combine that with a flexible agenda and a matchmaking Iraqi host &#151; and the international gathering Saturday to help steer Iraq's future also appears as a prime opportunity for some icebreaking overtures between Iran and the United States.
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U.S. officials said on Wednesday that Iranian meddling in Iraq had continued despite talks between Washington and Tehran last month in Baghdad on security issues.
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BEIJING, Dec. 27 -- Iran says it will not have a direct dialogue with the US on its nuclear issue in the near future. Foreign Ministry Spokesman Hamid Reze Asefi says Iran is not convinced the US even wants
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Iranian nuclear officials and a visiting team from the U.N. nuclear watchdog held talks on Monday to clarify outstanding questions about Iran's atomic work, which the West fears is a cover to build a nuclear bomb.
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WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the United States would hold direct talks with Iran if Tehran suspended its nuclear program. Iran's president, however, pledged to move ahead with enrichment activity that Washington contends masks weapons development.
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In a policy shift toward a long-time   foe, U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Wednesday   the United States would open talks with Iran if Tehran   verifiably suspended its nuclear enrichment and reprocessing   activities.
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Former Argentine soccer great Diego Maradona says he wants to meet Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, a leading U.S. foe, local media reported on Monday.
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Iranian negotiator Ali Larijani is to hold talks with the head of the UN nuclear watchdog agency.
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Iran's hard-line President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Monday that Iran is ready to hold more talks with the United States over stabilizing Iraq, the state-run news agency reported.
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The U.S. ambassador in Baghdad suspects his talks with Iranians may have brought some changes for the better