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Associated PressUS Agrees to New Talks With IranTuesday November 20, 2007 7:01 PM
By MATTHEW LEE
Associated Press Writer
WASHINGTON (AP) - The United States has accepted
an Iraqi proposal to hold new talks with Iran about
the security situation in Iraq, the State Department
said Tuesday.
The as-yet unscheduled meeting would be the fourth
round of talks between Ryan Crocker, the U.S.
ambassador to Iraq, and his Iranian counterpart. Two
previous sessions ended inconclusively with Iran
rejecting U.S. allegations that Iran is supporting
Shia insurgent groups in Iraq by providing bombmaking
material responsible for the deaths of American troops.
Amid a decline in attacks involving such devices,
State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said
Washington had responded favorably to a suggestion
from the Iraqi government that it was now “the
appropriate time” for another meeting at the
ambassadorial level in Baghdad.
“We said 'yes,' that we would agree to that,” he
told reporters, adding that the United States had
informed Iran of its acceptance through diplomatic
channels that normally involve Swiss intermediaries.
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