Reuters: Iran sets conditions for talks with U.S. on Iraq

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Iran sets conditions for talks with U.S. on Iraq


By Mohammed Abbas
12 minutes ago

MANAMA (Reuters) - Iran will only hold direct talks with the United States on Iraq
if Washington announces plans to pull its troops out, Iranian Foreign Minister
Manouchehr Mottaki said on Saturday.

Mottaki was responding to this week's U.S. Iraq Study Group report, which
recommended Washington should directly engage with Iran and Syria to try
to stabilize Iraq.

President Bush has said he will not talk to Iran unless it suspends its nuclear program.

On the question of direct talks, "the first and most essential step ... is the United
States announce they have decided to withdraw from Iraq," Mottaki told reporters
at a security conference in Bahrain.

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Full article: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061209/wl_nm/iran_usa_iraq_dc

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1. I love it. They beat lil boots to the table. I love it. This is some funny shit.

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2. Nature abhors a vacuum.....nt

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3. Iran excelling at PR

Its scary how effective Iran has become at the PR game. They bamboozled Europe for a few years, exclaiming their desire for talks over their uranium enrichment, insisting it was for energy, and constantly making demands that were not realistic. As soon as the Euros tried to cancel talks and move towards sanctions, Iran would decry the lack of diplomacy and make modest concessions. Now Bush and his braindead diplomacy, making demands on Iran before they even sat down to talk, has only prompted Iran to make demands of their own. Interestingly, the demand Iran is making are shared by a majority of the American people, a majority of Iraqis, and likely the majority of the rest of the world. Only Bush could get the rest of the world to side with Iran over the US.