High-level Iraqi delegation to head for Tehran

[maddezmom]

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Senior Iraqi ministers will go to Iran on Tuesday, officials said, possibly paving the way for a first official visit as prime minister by Nuri al-Maliki to Iraq's powerful Shi'ite neighbor.


Deputy Prime Minister Barham Salih, who oversees Iraq's economy, will travel with the finance and trade ministers, government aides said.

But the Iraqi government spokesman denied a report on Iranian state television that suggested Maliki might travel next week to visit his fellow Shi'ite Islamist leaders.

"There is no arrangement right now for any visit by the Prime Minister to ... Iran," spokesman Ali al-Dabbagh said, adding: "The government of Iraq would like to maintain the best relations with all neighboring countries."

more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060904/wl_nm/iraq_iran_delegation_dc

[Jacobin]

1. Ah yes. Merger talks

:rofl:

Neo cons are the biggest fools the planet has ever seen

[bemildred]

2. Time to meet the new owners. nt

[peacetalksforall]

3. Is this the real reason we want to decimate Iran right now instead of

later knowing Iran can't have wmd ready for 5-8 years?

They (PNAC) probably knew early (after realizimg that open arms clutching bouquets of flowers wasn't going to happen) that Iraq would seek out someone and Iran has had an interest.

I think that Kurds are in big trouble. Worse trouble than they were in under Saddam. What can the little people do about this all knowing that this isn't about bringing democracy - it'a about oil and Kurds have oil and little people are in another crappy position. ?????

[acmavm]

4. Isn't it an eerie feeling watching prophecy become reality?