US denies asking for Iranian help in Iraq

[sabra]

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1715615

US denies asking for Iranian help in Iraq

Reuters

Mar 12, 2006 — BAGHDAD (Reuters) - The U.S. ambassador in Baghdad denied on Sunday seeking Iran's help to calm violence in Iraq.

Britain's Sunday Times newspaper said journalists in Tehran had been shown a letter by a senior Iranian intelligence agent that was purportedly from U.S. envoy Zalmay Khalilzad, and which invited Iran to send representatives to talks in Iraq.

"Ambassador Khalilzad has the authority to meet with Iranian officials to discuss issues of mutual concern," the embassy said in a statement. "But he has not sent a letter in any language to the Iranians."

The newspaper said the letter was written in Farsi, which the Afghan-born ambassador speaks.

[C_U_L8R]

1. Are we really supoosed to believe

this same gang of lying assholes
who brought us "arms for hostages"
in the Iran-Contra scandal ????

[MrPrax]

2. Must Be True...

Khalilzad's bald face denial suggests that there has been probably a shift in US policy towards to Iran diplomatically--why deny something that is quite reasonable and probable.

Iraq is NOT at war with Iran, so it would be entirely a routine matter to contact Iran if your are a real Ambassador as opposed to a puppet.

[sabra]

3. The Sunday Times: Iran claims US has offered peace talks

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2081493,00.html

Iran claims US has offered peace talks

EVEN as politicians in Tehran and Washington stoked the fires of confrontation last week, America was said to have been asking Iran for help in calming the violence in Iraq.

A senior Iranian intelligence official showed Channel 4 News a letter in Persian purportedly signed by Zalmay Khalilzad, the US ambassador in Baghdad, inviting Iranian representatives to Iraq for talks.

Last November Khalilzad — who speaks Persian and dealt with the Iranians during negotiations over Afghanistan — said he had been authorised by President George W Bush to try to engage Iran and that its co-operation was needed to secure long-term peace in Iraq.

...

The Iranian official claimed the invitation was renewed two weeks ago, just as America ratcheted up the rhetoric over Iran’s nuclear programme.

[peacetalksforall]

4. How do you believe our administration? Are the talks doomed to

fail so PNAC can say we tried peace? How do you believe anything coming from these people. How many lies a day are we subjected to. Hiding legislation is a lie. Misleading the opposing Party about the timing of a vote is a lie. Death is real, very real when it results from a lie. Not having a job is a lie when we are told that outsourcing is fine. Selling all our assets is a lie when we are told how strong we are and how tax cuts are beneficial.

Every waking minute of this administration is a lie.

We will now go outside our country to try to piece together the truth from this tidbit of Sunday morning words descending upon us on March 12, 2006.

[sabra]

5. The Sunday Times: Iran claims US has offered peace talks

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[HuffleClaw]

6. bwahahhahhahaaaaa

that is EXACTLY what i expect from this criminal gang that occupies the white house. SCREAMING and fear-mongering about iran from one side of their mouth while pleading with the iranians out of the other side. disgusting.

[george_hurley]

7. ***PETITION TO SIGN: NO WAR WITH IRAN ***

Hello,

For the past year, the growing tensions mounting between the US, Israel, and Iran are reaching a point where military action against Iran is w/in months of becoming reality. The repercussions are terrifying as such military action could involve countries such as China and Russia as they share massive energy/economic interests w/ Iran. The most likely scenario we would face would be the collapse of the US economy as the combination of a massive rise in oil prices and a run on the US dollar would surely be the weapon many countries would use to fight back against a preemptive US or Israeli strike.

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http://www.petitiononline.com/n0war1rn/



Also, here is another petition you can sign from another group:
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Thanks for your time

[sofa king]

8. As in, "Iran, please stop fomenting the civil war in Iraq"?

I can think of only a few groups which benefit from sectarian violence in Iraq. One is a group of elements within the United States which includes defense contractors and the kleptocracy.

The other is Iran. The biggest threat to Iranian security right now is the United States, via its occupation of Iraq. If things calm down there, the Americans might leave. Or, they might do what the neoconservatives have hinted they wish to do since before they hijacked American foreign policy, which is use Iraq as a springboard for invasion of Iran.

So the best way to ensure that the Americans leave Iraq without annexing Khuzestan and Bushehr provinces is to make sure that the Americans lose in Iraq, and the best way to do that without getting their own hands dirty is to stoke up a civil war there.