Iran: “We Want To Talk To More Important People”
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran would like higher-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 wartorn nation.
“The issue of negotiations between Iran and the U.S. about Iraq at the level of deputy foreign ministers is reviewable,” the agency quoted Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki as saying after a cabinet meeting in Tehran.
Mottaki said that “necessary studies will be undertaken” in case a “formal request” is made by the U.S. for new, higher-level talks on Iraq.
Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said after the talks in Baghdad that experts would meet as early as Wednesday to work out the structure and mechanism of the committee.
“We hope that the next round of talks will be on a higher level if progress is made,” he said at a news conference after the talks.
But underscoring the rising tensions between the two foes, U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker reiterated accusations that Iran is fueling the violence in Iraq by arming and training Shiite militias. He warned that no progress could be made unless Iranian actions change on the ground.
Iranian Ambassador Hassan Kazemi Qomi countered that Tehran was helping Iraq deal with the security situation but that Iraqis were “victimized by terror and the presence of foreign forces” on their territory.
He said Tuesday his delegation also demanded the release of five Iranians detained by U.S. forces in Iraq. The United States has said the five were linked to Iran’s elite Quds Force, which it has accused of arming and training Iraqi militants. Iran says the five are diplomats who were legally in Iraq.
Iraq’s fragile government has been pressing for more contacts between the two nations with the greatest influence over its future, and Iran has repeatedly signaled its willingness to sit down.
Iran holds considerable sway in Iraq, where the majority of the population is also Shiite Muslim and where many Shiite political parties are seen as having ties to Tehran.
The United States broke off diplomatic ties with the Islamic republic following the 1979 storming of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran and the holding of American hostages for 444 days.
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USA: We want to talk to people that dont play for time and talk BS.
July 25th, 2007 at 1:49 amThe diplomatic talks with these murderers is a total wast of time. They only negotiate to bide time to launch more attacks on the west.A bit of the old British gunboat diplomacy is in order here.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:39 amIn the days when the British Empire was an empire, if the natives were restless, up sailed a gunboat and flattenend a few towns.Negotiations then proceeded with the outcome a foregone conclusion.
A bit more of this kind of diplomacy and there wouldnt be the b/s that we see every day form the ME.
Time to get REALLY TOUGH with the ingrates.
They think that they can kill the coalition soldiers with impunity. Get fuckt.Make an example: 1 soldier killed: 1 city in Iran smoked.
1 Humvee IED, 7 dead soldiers: 10 citied smoked.
The message, although slow to get through will get through. Try this
Added: Just remember these muthfukrs would decimate any US city without a single thought.
July 25th, 2007 at 2:42 amIdea: monitor CAIR to see if they are advising their member to get out of a city somewhere.Then be afraid, very afraid, and prepare to show the same restaint. NONE.
This aint a pixy sqabble, its a fight to the death,Theirs.NOT ours
how about you talk to Bozo the Clown you hell bound goat fuckers
July 25th, 2007 at 3:28 amAnd what would that solve Iran? You towel heads are just playing the Democrum headfuck game of obfuscation, delay and lying. Fuck you. Go back to your hole.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:27 amHow about the pilot of a B1 bomber carrying a nuke?
July 25th, 2007 at 4:33 amI hear that Barak Obama will meet with them.
July 25th, 2007 at 4:58 amMullahs must have heard Barack Obama at the Dems presidential debates saying that he would meet & talk to all our enemy leaders (Iran, Syria, N. Korea, Venezuela, etc) with no conditions in his first year as president. I bet afterward, Obama would give each one of them a hug, so special.
July 25th, 2007 at 6:50 amHow about a platoon of marine corps grunts with automatic weapons at the ready? Pretty fuckin important people to me!
July 25th, 2007 at 7:10 amSo our Ambassador isn’t high enough for the Iranians. I guess they’ve learned through our media and dem politicians that they need to talk to the real authorities, Nancy Peloski, Harry Reidski and their crowd.
July 25th, 2007 at 7:24 amLook, I told everyone the answer to this problem a long time ago.
To those who didn’t listen, let me say it again…
1) Leave minimal troop coverage in Afghanistan and Iraq.
2) Port three aircraft carrier armadas off of Iran’s coast.
3) Going in a west to east fashion, reduce to rubble everything in Iran that has ANYTHING to do with their military and/or government.
4) After the two weeks of “fighting”, pull back out of Iran and let the loony mullahs and imams and young freedom idealists fight for control of the country.
Problem solved.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:44 amIf you want to talk, you talk to the person we send you. And he is more than you shitheads deserve. I swear I don’t know why we are still willing to talk to these assholes. Send them some airmail that explodes.
July 25th, 2007 at 8:46 amWhen did the Iranians get to be so important that they decide who and when they speak to them. It’s unfortunate that we didn’t start the party there first. They still owe us for a bunch of crap.
But then again we could just give them what they want because they are Persians, not Arabs.
July 25th, 2007 at 9:25 amTold ya to set the Iranian formed penetrator mines on the table, aim the at the towel heads, arm them, then say “OK, I am authorized to deal with you as I see fit.”
July 25th, 2007 at 9:25 amHIGHER LEVEL TALKS???? SOUNDS LIKE THE U.S.A.F.
July 25th, 2007 at 9:32 amThe PROCTOLOGIST to the President is probably available.
July 25th, 2007 at 5:51 pm