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Open Talks With Iran
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BAGHDAD - The new U.S. ambassador to Iraq has made a career of taking on difficult tasks. Ryan Crocker helped set up Iraq's provisional government following Saddam Hussein's fall. In Afghanistan, he reopened the U.S. Embassy in Kabul after the Taliban's collapse in 2001 and led sensitive negotiations with Iran.
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By Jeffrey Fleishman Los Angeles Times
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WASHINGTON - The Obama administration will leave open the door for discussions with Iran over its nuclear ambitions even as demonstrators question the legitimacy of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's re-election, administration officials said Sunday. Ahmadinejad has accused the West of stoking unrest, singling out Britain and the United States for allegations of meddling. Last week, Iran expelled two British diplomats, and Britain responded in kind. Iran, which detained nine British Embassy employees Saturday before releasing four, has said it's considering downgrading diplomatic ties with Britain.
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TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Thursday that it was prepared to talk directly with the United States about Iraq, a major shift for a country that has long avoided negotiations with what it calls the "Great Satan. The offer appears to reflect the desire of at least some top Iranian officials to relieve Western pressure over Tehran's nuclear program in return for help on Iraq, which is sliding toward civil war.
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TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran's president said Thursday his regime is ready for talks over its nuclear capabilities, but he sent mixed signals on how much is open for negotiation and suggested Tehran has the upper hand in its showdown with the West. Mahmoud Ahmadinejad repeated Iran's position that uranium enrichment is an untouchable national right, a clear jab at the West two days after Iran received a package of economic and technological incentives to suspend the program.
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Israel remains on board with the Obama administration's decision to open high-level talks with Iran, even though officials in Jerusalem are skeptical of the chances for success and want the U.S. to set a hard-and-fast deadline. We've never had reason to be optimistic Iran will reciprocate, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't give it a go," said an Israeli official who requested anonymity. "I think the Israelis and Americans are looking at two different clocks. We're looking for a bit more intensive consideration of the issues.
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MUNICH -- Vice President Joe Biden reached out to the world Saturday, saying the U.S. is open for talks with Iran and Russia to repair relations and willing to work with allies to solve world problems. But in his first major foreign policy speech for the new administration, the Democrat also warned that the U.S. stands ready to take pre-emptive action against Tehran if it does not abandon its nuclear ambitions and support for terrorism.
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TEHRAN, Iran Iran is ready to consider high-level talks with the United States regarding security in Iraq, the official Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday. The report came a day after the American and Iranian ambassadors to Iraq met in Baghdad and agreed to set up a security subcommittee to carry forward talks on restoring stability in the war-torn nation.
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The 'Alawis of Syria are part of the Shi'a stream; this has led to an alliance with Iran, the center of Shi'ite Islam. This alliance aggravated the oppositionist Syrian Muslim Brotherhood (MB), whose members have been in exile since 1982. According to them, the alliance is a stage in a Shi'ite scheme to take over the Sunni countries, including Syria. However, during the past year the MB has changed their strategy, and we are currently witnessing a rapprochement between the Brotherhood and Damascus.
...He also allowed the opening of new Qur'anic schools and the building of new mo... Syria, participated in the Madrid peace talks with Israel. These actions caused tension between ...
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LONDON - Ahmad Chalabi, a former Pentagon favorite who was once Iraq's deputy prime minister, urged the United States to open talks with Iran, saying Saturday that it could help reduce sectarian violence in Iraq and allow U.S. forces to withdraw. Chalabi, who helped the Bush administration gather intelligence about Saddam Hussein's alleged unconventional weapons program and ties to al-Qaida ahead of the 2003 invasion, told The Associated Press that he understood why many Americans have lost patience.
