U.S. not aiming to hit Iran over Iraq role: Burns
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The United States does not intend to strike Iran to force it to stop supplying Shi'ite groups with weapons technology to kill U.S. troops in Iraq, a senior U.S. official said.
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The United States is not planning for war with Iran but is determined to stop Iranians supplying bombs for deadly attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said on Friday.
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President Bush warns Iran not to be helpful on Iraq.
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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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The U.S. isn t attempting to influence Ukraine, Georgia and other former Soviet republics and is supporting democracy in those countries, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell said.
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The United States would deal with Iran as part of a group of Iraq's neighbors that will meet in Egypt this month, although Washington has no diplomatic relations with Tehran, Secretary of State Colin Powell said on Tuesday.
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The most senior US military officer says Iran's government may not be directly involved in arming Shias in Iraq.
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A democratic Iraq can still emerge from sectarian violence, but the United States does not plan to open talks with Syria and Iran on stabilizing the country, President George W. Bush's pick for deputy secretary of state said on Tuesday.
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Secretary of State Colin Powell dismissed assertions Thursday by Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry that failed diplomacy by the Bush administration deprived the United States of Arab and European support in the Iraq war.
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Former U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell does not believe the United States will attack Iran and says Washington should speak to Tehran and Syria.
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Iranian weapons found in improvised explosive devices in Iraq and the capture of some Iranians did not by themself implicate Tehran, the head of the U.S. military's joint chiefs of staff said on Tuesday.
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The Bush administration may think  tough talk will discourage Iran's nuclear ambitions, but U.S.  policy on Iraq and North Korea has left the Islamic state  believing that only nuclear weapons can deter the possibility  of U.S. invasion, experts said on Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Dec. 10 -- Iraqi President Jalal Talabani on Sunday strongly rejected a bipartisan U.S. panel's report on U.S. war strategy in Iraq, calling some of its recommendations "dangerous" and a threat to his country's sovereignty.
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Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said a U.S. attack on Iran ''is simply not on the agenda,'' despite the United States' continued criticism of Iran's human rights record and suspected nuclear weapons ...
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U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that the United States is "not planning for a war with Iran."
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Iraq wants action not words from a regional conference in Baghdad on Saturday and will urge Iran and the United States not to use it as a playing field to settle their scores, Iraq's foreign minister said on Friday.
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A U.S. official said a second round of rare talks between Iran and the United States was not expected in Baghdad on Monday after an Iranian newspaper reported the dialogue on Iraqi security was about to resume.