Iran Halts Its Work With U.S. on Iraq - Democratic Underground

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:41 AM
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Iran Halts Its Work With U.S. on Iraq

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040414/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iran_us_iraq&cid=540&ncid=1473

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran said Wednesday an attempt to work with the United States on Iraq (news - web sites) was "going nowhere," and that Washington could not resolve the surge in violence without talks with Iraq's neighbors.

Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi said there had been contacts over Iraq but that progress had stalled. The specifics were not known but it was a rare acknowledgment of discussion between the two countries, which have no diplomatic ties.

"Previously, we had dialogue" about Iraq, Kharrazi told reporters in a "Currently it has stopped because we felt we were going nowhere. The Americans give promises, but don't keep their promises. Currently, they (the Americans) are taking a wrong path."

Separately, he said the United States had sent letters to Iran through the Swiss Embassy, which looks after U.S. interests in Iran, demanding Tehran help improve the situation in Iraq. He did not provide many details but indicated that channel had not been severed.

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MSgt213

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:44 AM
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1. Anyone need further proof that the Bush administration is completely

lacking in any skills in diplomacy. They have no concept of the give and take it takes to have people cooperate with you.

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:49 AM
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2. They have no clues at all. It may be

time to send Sec. of State Rumsfeld over there. For a while the world was laughing about our pResident. Now they are scared to death along with us.

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Magleetis

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Wed Apr-14-04 10:51 AM
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3. Bend over America

Here comes the BIG ONE.

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nolabels

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Wed Apr-14-04 12:23 PM
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4. Iran: the hands off approach to diplomacy with its unstable neighbor

Jeez what you do? Beside even in the article cutting your nose off in spite of your face is the * M.O. of foreign diplomacy anyway.

In 2002, President Bush listed Iran as part of an "axis of evil" along with Iraq and North Korea

(and snip again)

The U.S. military has been fighting on several fronts across Iraq this month _ against followers of a vehemently anti-U.S. Shiite Muslim cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, in the south; against Sunni Muslim insurgents in the central city of Fallujah; as well as in Baghdad and elsewhere.

In his remarks Wednesday, Iran's foreign minister rejected U.S. accusations of Shiite Iran's involvement in the violence.

I am surprised, does *co accuse Iran because of many of their people having the same religion?

You have to ask yourself do you feel like the people in the US are being served well when * asks

"Do you have blacks, too?" (George W. Bush, to Brazilian President Fernando Cardoso, Washington, D.C., Nov. 8, 2001.) -- There are far more Black Brazilians than there are Black Americans.

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