Iran and US hold key Iraq talks
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Iran and the United States are set to hold their first bilateral talks in almost three decades to discuss Iraq.
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Iran says it will take part in a US-sponsored conference on election plans for Iraq due to be held in Cairo next month.
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The conference promoted the legitimacy of Iraq's government and got Iran and US talking.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a landmark visit to Baghdad on March 2 for talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other officials, Iraq said on Thursday.
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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. and Iranian envoys spoke to each other directly at a regional meeting in Baghdad on Saturday but their exchanges dealt only with problems in Iraq and not with nuclear diplomacy.
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The U.S. and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq will meet this week to discuss security issues in the war-torn country, a senior Bush administration official said Sunday.
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TEHRAN -- Iran confirmed it will take part in an international conference alongside the United States in Baghdad on Saturday, a gathering that Iraq hopes will break the ice between the bitter rivals to help end its bloody conflict.
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U.S. and Iranian officials began rare talks in Baghdad on Monday to discuss Iraq's spiraling violence, which Washington says Tehran is fuelling by giving arms, funding and training to Shi'ite militias there.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials began work on Wednesday on setting up a security panel with Iran to try to end Iraq's bloodshed, and Tehran said it was open to higher-level talks with Washington.
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The United States left open the possibility on Wednesday that U.S. diplomats could meet one-on-one with Iranian officials on the sidelines of a conference of Iraq's neighbors in Baghdad this weekend.
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The US and Iran, in a rare sign of positive engagement, today confirmed they are to hold a second round of discussions on the future of Iraq.
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U.S. officials are expected to call on Iran to stop arming and funding Shi'ite militias when Iranian and American diplomats hold rare talks in Baghdad on Monday to discuss how to curb sectarian violence in Iraq.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States is ready to hold new direct talks with Iran on the deteriorating security situation in Iraq, the State Department said yesterday. The Bush administration accuses Tehran of supporting Shi'ite insurgents there.
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WASHINGTON -- The United States agreed yesterday to join high-level talks with Iran and Syria on the future of Iraq, an abrupt shift in policy that opens the door to diplomatic dealings the White House had shunned in recent months despite mounting criticism.
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Iraq is planning a second meeting with American and Iranian officials on improving security in the war-torn nation as a follow up to talks last month that broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze, Iraq's foreign minister said Thursday.
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The United States and Iran will hold a second round of critical talks on the future of Iraq in the next 10 days, possibly as early as Saturday, according to U.S. and Middle Eastern officials. The initiative comes despite mounting tensions between the two nations on such issues as Iran's nuclear...