Diplomats should have talked to top Iranian sooner on captives
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Diplomats trying to secure the release of 15 British troops captured by Iran earlier this year should have tried to speak to Iran&#39;s national security chief earlier, a report from lawmakers said Sunday.
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A meeting of world powers Friday on whether to refer Iran to the U.N. Security Council over its nuclear program was disrupted when Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's flight was delayed, giving leaders little time to reach a consensus and making it unlikely.
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A briefing on Iran's role in Iraq was low-key, and aimed more at diplomacy than placing blame, experts say.
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Nuclear energy officials hosted an Iranian delegation Wednesday for talks on the construction of a Russian-built plant that has fallen behind schedule because of what Moscow said were delays in payments by Tehran.
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Washington wants to hold direct talks  with Tehran, with which it broke ties 24 years ago, to discuss  a number of issues including the Islamic state's nuclear  program, a senior Iranian security official said on Tuesday.
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Senior diplomats from six world powers   meet in the German capital on Thursday to discuss what to do   with Iran after it ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline to   freeze its nuclear enrichment program.
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month was released by his captors on Monday but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including a Briton threatened with beheading, remained unclear.
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Iranian diplomats said they made their first visit Saturday to five Iranians that U.S. authorities are holding in Iraq on suspicion that they were training militants there.
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WASHINGTON, Sep 21 (IPS) - After a tense week with several U.S. allies  breaking ranks with the George W. Bush administration on Iran, an  agreement has been reached to give diplomacy a bit more time.
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The United States and Iran broke a 27-year diplomatic freeze Monday with a four-hour meeting about Iraqi security. The American envoy said there was broad policy agreement, but that Iran must stop arming and financing militants who are attacking U.S. and Iraqi forces.
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Secretery of the Iranian Supreme National Security Council Hasan Rowhani,right, and China&#39;s Foreign Minister Li Zhaoxing, talk during their meeting in Tehran, on Saturday Nov. 6, 2004.
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Hassan Rowhani, the secretary of Iranâs Supreme National Security Council, held discussions on Monday with Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot and other officials of the Netherlands, which
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An Iranian diplomat taken hostage in Iraq last month has been released by his captors but the fate of at least 11 other foreigners, including Briton Kenneth Bigley threatened with beheading, remains unclear.
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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator and the European Union's foreign policy chief may meet again in the next few days for talks on Tehran's disputed nuclear program, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said on Sunday.
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Hassan Rowhani, the secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council, held discussions on Monday with Dutch Foreign Minister Bernard Bot and other officials of the Netherlands, which currently holds the ...
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In their first direct talks since the Iraq war began, U.S. and Iranian envoys traded harsh words and blamed each other for the country's crisis Saturday at a one-day international conference that some hoped would help end their 27-year diplomatic freeze.
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Iran&#039;s top nuclear negotiator said Tuesday that talks on Tehran&#039;s atomic program will be a &quot;long process,&quot; urging patience and dashing hopes of a breakthrough on the international standoff.