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‘Iran still ready for talks with US on Iraq’

GENEVA: Iran is still ready to hold talks with the United States limited to the situation in neighbouring Iraq, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mounachehr Mottaki said on Thursday.

“The recent proposal made by Iraqi leaders for Iran to talk with the US about issues relating to Iraq: we look on this proposal as an opportunity to help the Iraqi nation,” Mottaki told journalists in Geneva. “These negotiations will be limited only to Iraq. The venue, the team of negotiators and the time is yet to be finalised,” he added.

The idea was floated earlier this month by Ali Larjani, head of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, and was later accepted by Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad despite his own sense of “distrust” of the United States. US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said last week she was “quite certain” that US officials would hold direct talks with Iran on the turmoil in Iraq. AFP

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