Iraq's Neighbors Prepare to Meet in Iran
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Iran's capital is an unlikely place for Iraq's neighbors and Egypt to discuss the infiltration of terrorists into Iraq. Not only does the Persian country have a long history of conflict with Arabs, it is also accused by the United States of supporting the insurgency across the border.
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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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U.S. and Iranian officials will hold rare talks in Baghdad on Monday to discuss security in Iraq, where Washington accuses Tehran of stoking violence.
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Iranian and U.S. envoys will soon hold talks in Baghdad to discuss security in Iraq, following up on a landmark meeting in May, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said on Tuesday.
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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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A regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday aims to rally support behind the Iraqi government and map out ways to cooperate in easing the country's bloody conflict. But the participants are coming in with starkly different agendas. The session gathers diplomats from Iraq's Arab neighbors as well as Iran, Turkey, the United States and the four other permanent members of the U.N. Security Council.
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Iraq's Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri   al-Maliki will make his first official visit to neighboring   Iran on Monday to discuss political and security issues, an   Iraqi government spokesman said on Saturday.
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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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Envoys from the West and Islamic nations &#151; including Iran, Syria and the United States &#151; are expected to attend a conference next month on efforts to stabilize Iraq, a diplomatic adviser said Tuesday.
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Iraq's interim deputy prime minister goes to Iran on Saturday for what's being seen as a fence-building visit.
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Iranian Majlis deputy and member of foreign policy and national security commission Elham Aminzadeh said Monday the forthcoming trip of Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi to Iran ushers in a new chapter in bilateral relations.
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Iran could play a crucial role in curbing Iraq's Shiite militias if the U.S. opens a dialogue with Tehran as recommended by the Iraq Study Group, many in the Mideast say.
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The United States would deal with  Iran as part of a group of Iraq's neighbors that will meet in  Egypt this month, although Washington has no diplomatic  relations with Tehran, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on  Tuesday.
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The United States expects to sit down with Iran at an international conference to discuss stability in Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said Tuesday. Washington and Tehran have no diplomatic relations.
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Iranian President Mohammad Khatami, right, talks with Iraqi Vice-President, Ibrahim al-Jafari, during their official meeting in Tehran, Iran, Saturday Nov. 27, 2004.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani is due to meet Iran's supreme leader in Tehran on the second day of a key visit.
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U.S. and Iraqi officials began work on Wednesday to team up with Iran to find an end to the bloodshed in Iraq whose security crisis was dramatized anew by two suicide bombs that killed 50 people.