Kerry: U.S. would communicate with Iran, not work with it, against ISIS

(CNN) -- Secretary of State John Kerry stressed Thursday that the United States is interested only in communicating with Iran, not working with the country, to push back Islamist militants who are threatening Iraq.

On Thursday, he told NBC News that statements he'd made this week seem to have been misunderstood.

"What I said is we are interested in communicating with Iran to make clear that the Iranians know what we're thinking and we know what they're thinking and there's a sharing of information so people aren't making mistakes," the secretary said.

The idea of the U.S. working with Iran would be a "head-scratcher," he said. "No. We're not sitting around contemplating if we're going to do that. That's not on the table."

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