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Talk On

Iran and Syria want to talk. It’s just not clear how much or what about. March 10, with the five permanent UN Security Council members in attendance:  

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Iraq’s neighbors including Iran and Syria have agreed to join U.S. and British representatives to discuss the Iraqi security crisis at a regional conference March 10 in Baghdad, the government said Wednesday.

Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said he will be issuing formal invitations shortly to the neighboring countries and the five permanent U.N. Security Council members - the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China - to send deputy foreign ministers or senior officials to the meeting.

Zebari, in a telephone interview with The Associated Press from Sweden, said Iran has agreed to participate in the meeting with the other neighbors but “they have some questions” about a meeting that would be held the same day with the five permanent council members.

His words seemed to indicate that Iran was at least partly unhappy with the arrangements for the meeting, and weighing the extent of its own participation.

Iran has had little public comment on the meeting so far. But in the past, Iranian leaders have been vocal in accusing the United States of trying to use the U.N. as a way to “gang up” on it, and the presence of the key Security Council countries at the Iraq meeting might give Iran pause.

For their part, Sunni Arab countries like Egypt still hold grave concerns about the direction taken by Iraq’s Shiite-led government, raising concerns the conference will make little headway on key issues like security.

Rest assured Iran and Syria will come up with some kind of nonsense, and try to use this session to undercut (a) the United States, (b) the surge, (c) any scrutiny on their own role in supporting the terrorists in Iraq.  And I would think they’d be more than happy to have their pals the Russians, the Chinese and the French there to help them. You know, gang up on the United States and Britain. 

Topics: Iran, Iraq

  Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:10 pm on Wednesday, February 28, 2007

2 Responses to “Talk On”

1. saltydog Says:
   March 1st, 2007 at 3:41 am

   Maybe they’ll hit Secretary Rice up side the head and knock some sense into her. THEN this charade would be worth it.

2. Axis of Evil: New Bush Administration Policy? at No Man’s Blog Says:
   March 1st, 2007 at 9:20 am

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