Iran getting in the way of Bush, war supporter's spin on Iraq

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Iran Diplomacy Fails to Halt Iraq Attacks, U.S. Says

Ed Johnson
1 hour, 6 minutes ago

Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Diplomatic talks with Iran are failing to stem the insurgency in neighboring Iraq, the U.S. State Department said, as the military revealed Iranian-linked bomb attacks on troops are increasing.

Two rounds of talks between Ambassador Ryan Crocker and his Iranian counterpart in Baghdad, and lower level security discussions, haven't ``yielded positive results,'' State Department spokesman Sean McCormack said.

President George W. Bush said at a press conference today that Iran is being told that ``there will be consequences'' for people sending deadly explosives to Iraq to be used against U.S. soldiers.

The U.S. has repeatedly accused Iran of training and financing insurgents in Iraq and stoking violence between the country's Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities. Iran denies the charges and is holding the latest round of security talks with Iraq.

Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki is in Tehran. ``His message, I'm confident, will be: `stabilize; don't destabilize.' And the sending of weapons into Iraq is a destabilizing factor,'' Bush told reporters in Washington.

Two U.K. soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb attack near Iraq's southern city of Basra today. The U.S. military raided a terrorist cell yesterday in Baghdad suspected of transporting weapons from Iran. U.S. forces killed 30 suspected militiamen and detained 12 others in the raid in eastern Baghdad's mainly Shiite Muslim area of Sadr City.

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Bush Says Iraqi Leader Shares His View on Iran

By CHRISTINE HAUSER
Published: August 9, 2007

President Bush said today that he was confident that Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq shared the White House’s view that Iran is a destabilizing force in the region. Mr. Bush’s remarks came after Mr. Maliki visited to Tehran for talks with Iranian government officials on security in Iraq.

Mr. Maliki and the Iranian vice president, Parviz Davoudi, were portrayed by the Iranian news media today as seeing eye to eye on several security matters, including condemning all forms of terrorism and expressing support for Iraq’s stability.

Asked today what message the meeting and photographs sent by showing an apparently “warm” visit between the Iraqi and Iranian officials, Mr. Bush said that he would first like to get a “readout” from the American embassy in Baghdad, which would be in touch with Mr. Maliki.

“Now, if the signal is that Iran is constructive, I will have to have a heart to heart with my friend, the prime minister,” Mr. Bush said of Mr. Maliki. “Because I don’t believe they are constructive. I don’t think he, in his heart of heart, think they’re constructive either.”

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[eleny]

1. A picture is worth a thousand words

[dipsydoodle]

2. Would they be the same consequences

as when the USA gave Saddam Hussien weapons to use against Iran ?