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February 14, 2008

Iran Postpones Meeting With US About Iraq's Security Situation
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http://enews.voanews.com/t?ctl=1B3F1AA:A6F02AD83191E160A777ACF10DAF391D21A4E82C900CD027& Iraqi officials say
Tehran did not give reason for decision about expert level meeting; no
new date set Iraqi and U.S. officials say Iran has postponed an expert
level meeting with U.S. representatives on improving Iraq's security
situation.

Tehran has not given a reason for the decision and no new date has
been set.

The Associated Press news agency quotes U.S. embassy spokeswoman
Mirembe Nantongo as saying it is increasingly clear that Iran is not
ready to sit down for talks.

The meetings were scheduled to be in Baghdad on Friday. They were
going to be the fourth round of talks on the security situation in
Iraq.

U.S. and Iranian officials met three times in Baghdad last year,
breaking a 27-year freeze in diplomatic contacts between the two
sides. Two of those meetings involved U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan
Crocker and his Iranian counterpart, Hassan Kazemi Qomi.

In another development, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad will
travel to Iraq on March 2 for a two-day visit. The planned visit will
be the first by an Iranian leader to Iraq in years.



Some information for this report was provided by AP and Reuters.








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