Bush presses Iran, Syria to help Iraq
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President Bush said Sunday that Iran and Syria need to follow through on pledges to help Iraq, but left the door open to additional contacts between Washington and its chief Mideast foes.
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WASHINGTON - While scrutiny last week focused on the debate over troop strength, President Bush also seized the chance to turn up the pressure on Iran, using his speech on Thursday to stress the need to contain Iran as a major reason for the continued US presence in Iraq.
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- Syria and Iran are willing to help stabilize Iraq, as the Iraq Study Group recommended yesterday, but both countries will want something in return and neither has a magic solution to the chaos, Mideast officials and analysts said.
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Campaigning for the first post-Saddam Hussein elections got under way amid more bloodshed, as US President George W. Bush warned Iran and Syria to stop meddling in Iraq in the runup to the vote.
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The United States and the Iraqi government are launching a new diplomatic initiative to invite Iran and Syria to a "neighbors meeting" on stabilizing Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Tuesday.
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President George W. Bush said on   Tuesday in a message to the Iranian people that the government   of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is using their resources to   fund terrorists and pursue nuclear weapons.
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US President George W. Bush on Wednesday urged Iran and Syria not to meddle in internal affairs of Iraq. &quot;We will continue to make it clear, to both Syria and Iran that... meddling in the internal affairs
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President Bush threatened on Monday to use new economic and diplomatic measures to pressure Syria over its suspected interference in Iraq before January elections.
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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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The Bush administration and interim  Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi are pushing several Western  and Middle Eastern countries, including Iran, to join in  holding a conference in October to boost Iraq's electoral  process, The New York Times reported on Saturday.
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President George W Bush insists an Iranian military force is linked to some attacks on US forces in Iraq.
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Hard-line Syria, sanctioned and criticized by the U.S. administration over the Arab-Israeli conflict and Iraq, says President Bush's new mandate could mean hope for solutions in a troubled Middle East.
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President Bush on Saturday urged world leaders to turn the words of a Mideast cease-fire deal into action, even as Israel expanded its air and ground campaign into Lebanon.
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WHITE HOUSE President Bush is urging Sinn Fein (shin fayn) leader Gerry Adams to help speed up the peace process in Northern Ireland.
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SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt  - President George W. Bush said on Wednesday that Syria and Iran must end interference in Lebanese politics, and called for nations in the region to support Prime Minister Fouad Siniora.
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TEHRAN -- Iran yesterday touted its weekend summit with the Iraqi and Syrian presidents, scheduled only days before President Bush holds a summit of his own with Iraq's prime minister. With the United States looking for a way out of Iraq, Tehran is aiming to secure a larger role in the region.
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President George W. Bush urged Saudi Arabia on Tuesday to help tame soaring oil prices and warned Iran not to behave provocatively in the oil-exporting Gulf region.