Iran claims US has offered peace talks

[NNN0LHI]

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

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.

Most of Iraq’s senior Shi’ite politicians lived in exile in Iran during the latter years of Saddam Hussein’s rule, and the British and the Americans have both accused Iranian elements of arming and training Shi’ite militant groups.


Note: Zalmay Khalilzad is an original PNAC signatory.

[Nickster]

1. I have no doubt this is true. This is the only way to exit Iraq.

[NNN0LHI]

2. You think this would be big news in our newspapers here in America?

NYT, WaPo, etc. I don't think they have even mentioned this. All we hear is how crazy them Iranians are from them. I wonder why that is?

Don

[madokie]

3. am i nauseated or is it the bird flu

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

4. Spider requests help from fly.