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APWASHINGTON - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said Thursday she has no plans to meet Iran's foreign minister at a conference of Iraq's neighbors next week, amid increasing U.S. complaints about Iranian support for Iraqi insurgents.
Rice renewed U.S. calls for Iran to end its backing for Shia militias and said she would repeat that message at the neighbors' meeting in Kuwait. But she said she would not press the point directly with her Iranian counterpart, Manouchehr Mottaki, who is also expected to attend Tuesday's conference.
"I don't intend to meet the Iranians, that is not in the plan," Rice told reporters in Washington. "The Iranians will be at the meeting ... but, no, I don't have any plans to meet them."
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Crocker: Room at the table for IranPublished: April 10, 2008 at 6:41 PM
Print story Email to a friend Font size:WASHINGTON, April 10 (UPI) -- The United States would enter trilateral talks with Iraq and Iran if the Iraqis wanted a round of security talks, the top U.S. diplomat in Iraq said.
U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker was answering a question about why a more forceful response wasn't made to the upswing in violence and attacks on the Green Zone -- in which U.S. soldiers were killed -- after having "laid out a fairly persuasive case for Iranian involvement" in the attacks.
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WASHINGTON - The U.S. ambassador in Iraq says the Bush administration wants to test whether Iran is really interested in talking to the United States about a country of mutual interest — Iraq.
Ambassador Ryan Crocker says even though Iran has backed out of recent appointments to meet with him to talk about Iraq, he's ready and waiting for the meeting. Crocker told reporters Friday that the Bush administration thinks it's worthwhile to make the offer, and worthwhile to make the case to Iran that it should butt out of Iraq's internal affairs.
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