U.S. and Iran to hold rare talks on Iraq violence
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U.S. officials are expected to call on Iran to stop arming and funding Shi'ite militias when Iranian and American diplomats hold rare talks in Baghdad on Monday to discuss how to curb sectarian violence in Iraq.
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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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BAGHDAD, July 22 -- The United States and Iran will hold a second round of direct talks to discuss Iraq's worsening security situation as early as Tuesday, even as U.S. military commanders continue to accuse Iranian operatives of fomenting the instability.
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Iran and the United States are set to hold their first bilateral talks in almost three decades to discuss Iraq.
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Iraqi envoys will visit Iran and four other neighboring countries in the next few days to discuss convening a regional conference on calming the violence here, but will not include Syria, an aide to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Wednesday.
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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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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will make a landmark visit to Baghdad on March 2 for talks with Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and other officials, Iraq said on Thursday.
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The United States hopes a meeting between the U.S. and Iranian envoys to Baghdad will push Tehran to change its ways in Iraq even though their last encounter made no difference, said U.S. officials on Monday.
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Iran will host a two-day conference on Iraq to be attended by the interior ministers of the country's neighbors, Iranian Interior Ministry spokesman Jahanbakhsh Khanjani announced here on Saturday.
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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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Iran wants to renew high-level talks with U.S. officials on security in Iraq, insisting that discussions take place between ambassadors and not lower-level functionaries, Iraqi officials said Monday.
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U.S. and Iranian envoys spoke to each other directly at a regional meeting in Baghdad on Saturday but their exchanges dealt only with problems in Iraq and not with nuclear diplomacy.
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U.S. officials said on Wednesday that Iranian meddling in Iraq had continued despite talks between Washington and Tehran last month in Baghdad on security issues.
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Iranian and U.S. representatives may meet on the sidelines of next weekend's regional conference on Iraq -- but it is unlikely that Iran's nuclear program will be among the topics.
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Iran and the US are to hold fresh talks on the subject of Iraq, only their second one-on-one meeting in decades.
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Iran said Wednesday it is considering whether to participate in a Baghdad-organized conference of Iraq's neighbors that its top rival, the United States, plans to attend.
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Iranian support for militias who are destabilizing Iraq has risen since the United States and Iran held breakthrough talks in Baghdad in May, the U.S. envoy to Iraq said on Tuesday after a fresh round of discussions.