Iran positive on Iraq conference
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Iran says it will take part in security talks in Baghdad which include the US, if it is "in Iraq's best interests".
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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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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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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad   on Friday welcomed a world power overture to defuse a standoff   over Tehran's nuclear activity as a positive step but gave no   sign when an answer would come.
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30 August 2004 -- Iran&#39;s security chief, Hasan Rowhani, has assured visiting Iraqi officials that his country is committed to cooperating on establishing security in Iraq.
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Iran voiced optimism on Sunday about  negotiations with the European Union on its nuclear program and  a possible trade deal and said there was no need to involve  Washington in the talks right now.
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Iran is ready to provide "guarantees" it won't seek nuclear weapons and warned the United States that success in stabilizing Iraq and Afghanistan was impossible without Iranian support, the president said Saturday.
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Security in Iraq was the focus of the first US-Iran talks in nearly 30 years on Monday.
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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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Participants at a conference questioning whether the Holocaust took place praised Iran's hard-line president on Tuesday, saying the gathering gives them the chance to air theories casting doubt on the Nazi ...Comment
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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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Iraq is stepping up efforts to improve relations with neighbouring Iran, which has been highly critical of the military action against Shiite militias in Iraq.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Sunday he would help the United States calm Iraq if Washington changes what he described as its "bullying" policy toward Iran.
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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Sunday Iran was ready to help the United States and Britain in Iraq but only if they pledged to change their attitude and withdraw their troops.
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Iraqi deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih  said Sunday he brought a message of friendship to Iran, which  has been angered by charges it is stirring up tension in Iraq,  the official IRNA news agency said.
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BAGHDAD, March 10 -- After months of trading accusations, U.S. and Iranian officials sat in the same room Saturday at a much-anticipated regional conference on finding ways to end Iraq's sectarian violence and prevent a wider conflict.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq praised Iran on Sunday for helping to curb Shi'ite militia violence in Iraq on Sunday, using some of the warmest language Washington has employed toward its arch foe over Iraq.