Talking to Iran -- or Talking War?
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The U.S. and Iran will meet on Monday for the first time since the Iraq war. But the background noise is growing more bellicose
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Hypocrisy in international relations silences the US-EU governments from mentioning Israel and its arsenal of nuclear weapons. Instead, they focus on preventing Islamic countries to develop nuclear energy even for peaceful purposes, like the case of Iran.
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Cuban trade embargo? Not for Vermont cows. Britain, France, and Germany to offer Iran nuclear technology if it ends uranium enrichment efforts.
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A history of official contact &#151; and near misses &#151; between U.S. and Iranian officials.
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Iran presents a difficult balancing act for those in power in the U.S. &#151; and those seeking it. For President Bush, condemnation of Tehran's nuclear efforts must now be mixed with diplomacy. U.S. and Iranian ambassadors plan to sit down Monday in Baghdad in a rare direct meeting to discuss stabilizing Iraq.
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Do we have another culture clash to further aggravate relations between the U.S. and Iran?.
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Iran made Europe an offer Tuesday: Stop pressuring us on nuclear energy and we&#39;ll guarantee not to make a bomb. European and US governments were discussing an alternate proposal - to buy Iran out of its nuclear ambitions.
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The Bush administration&#39;s campaign to persuade Iran to abandon its suspected nuclear weapons programs is running into resistance among some allies and disputes over
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The commander of U.S. military forces in the Middle East does not believe current tensions with Iran will lead to war and urges for greater emphasis on dialogue and diplomacy.
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In a shift, the US plans to talk to Iraq's neighbors, including Iran and Syria, about the region. What do key players hope to get?
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TEHRAN -- Iran is willing to talk with the United States about a nuclear program that Washington alleges is aimed at secretly acquiring the bomb, Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said Monday. The White House, however, rejected the idea. Germany, Britain, and France launched new negotiations with Iran on Monday to try to persuade Tehran to abandon any nuclear program that ...
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The Bush administration says it's not going soft on Iran, but Washington's new agreement to talk to the clerical regime about violence in Iraq could crack the door for other discussions with the last holdout among President Bush's old axis of evil.
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Some Republicans in Congress are second-guessing a government intelligence report that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. They want a second opinion.
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VIENNA -- A year ago, nonproliferation officials were jubilantly hailing the triumph of diplomacy in reining in Iran's alleged nuclear weapons ambitions. But many now fear that efforts to negotiate with Tehran have descended into a perilous diplomatic quagmire.
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has expressed fears over the threat of war in Iran after talks with his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner.Both ministers are meeting in Moscow, where Iran's nuclear program is topping their agenda. On Sunday, Mr Kouchner had raised tensions with Iran, saying: "We have to prepare for the worst, and the worst is war." Clarifying comments he made on Sunday, Mr Kouchner said today in Moscow that war was the "worst that could happen".
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TEHRAN -- Behind Iran's defiant stance on its nuclear program lies an anxious debate over the country's role in the world.
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As I sat down recently with a senior Iranian government official, he urgently waved a column by Thomas Friedman of The New York Times in my face, one about how the United States and Iran need to engage each other.