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Coalition examines developments in the political situation in the country and service

Baghdad-Sabah.
The United Iraqi Alliance had discussed a number of important developments on the Iraqi arena.

A statement by the Supreme Council, the Iraqi Islamic "Al-Sabah" copy yesterday : that the United Iraqi Alliance bloc discussed during a meeting held yesterday to the list of the first theme cabinet reshuffle before the House of Representatives by Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and the need to do so as soon as possible.
He added : that the conferees discussed several topics including law abolishing the Baath Party and amendments planned it. The statement continued : "The meeting touched on the subject of electricity blackouts and fuel shortages and the suffering of citizens particularly strong in Baghdad and central and southern governorates, and the need to put an end to this.

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call to establish a domestic investment in Missan

Sabah Missan
Center forward sincere in Maysan specialized symposium on (the prospects for investment in Missan governorate) During the review of the current reality of the province of Team Information Center of the Office of the Governor of Maysan.

Attendance and discussed investment opportunities in the province and how to help investors and discussed how to prepare a guide for investors and open dialogues for the development of this sector. The symposium concluded the need to : accelerate the formation of the local investment in the governorate of Missan and urged public and private sectors to prepare comprehensive database of the actual reality of each sector, resources and investment opportunities available, and the emphasis on providing the necessary facilities to encourage investors to reduce administrative red tape, and the need to continue to hold panel discussions with the relevant sectors, which would create the information needed to make investment in their sectors.
The attendance Iraqi Central Bank and banks to reduce the rate of bank interest to facilitate the work of investors and the swift opening of the bank credits in the governorate of Missan

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During the reception, Ambassador Ashraf Qazi in Baghdad, Tehran

Barham Salih : Iraq's stability will return peace to the region

Baghdad-Sabah.
Dr. Barham Salih Deputy Prime Minister : that the stability of Iraq means stability of the entire region and that the success of the political process in the country will return to stability and peace for all states of the region.

The Deputy Prime Minister, during his meeting with the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi Apical according to a statement issued from his office received a copy of it yesterday morning, that Iran is an important and influential country in the vicinity of Iraq and regional relations between the two countries must be based on common interests and non-interference in internal affairs. It was during the meeting, bilateral relations between the two countries and ways to strengthen and develop. so Saleh met with Ashraf Qazi representative of the Secretary General of the United Nations. It was during the meeting attended statement Jabr Al-Zubaydi, Minister of Finance, Dr Muwaffaq al-Rubay'i, the National Security Advisor and the Italian Ambassador in Baghdad representative of the donor countries and the composition of the nomination secretarial International Covenant with Iraq was launched at the Sharm el-Sheikh last month. The Deputy Prime Minister : that the purpose of the meeting was the formation of sectoral difference competent to follow the implementation of the International Covenant document and decisions.

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met with a delegation of scientists from both propositions and promised to review the decision to dismiss Samurai

Maliki calls clergy a greater role promotes the values of uniformity and renounce segregation

Baghdad morning
He urged Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki clerics in the country to play a bigger role in society and take the initiative in order to spare the people from further spreading.

This came during a reception at his office yesterday a delegation from the Sunni and Shiite scholars, calling for strengthening the spirit of cooperation and brotherhood among people of all communities, particularly Sunnis and Shiites who have lived unity did not know the band throughout their lives on the land of the country. The Prime Minister said that the Iraqi community and makes this a religious clerics for a special role in the promotion of projects and efforts monotheistic.
For his part, Dr. Ahmad Abd al-Ghafur al-Samarra'i, who was among the delegation explanation of the circumstances that led him to take some of the negative attitudes of the government expressing regret for those positions.
The Maliki readiness to review the decision to oust Dr. Samurai from his post as Chief of Staff to stay Sunni session to take on the popular and official levels, indicating the need to continue to cultivate a spirit of moderation and the fight against extremism from all sides, and expressed its readiness to support all projects that support this trend.

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This is from the state department confrence call.

Date: Mon, 28 May 2007 15:40:31 -0400
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Special Briefing
Office of the Spokesman
Washington, DC
May 28, 2007


On-the-Record Briefing With U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Ryan C. Crocker on
His
Meeting with Iranian Officials


Via Teleconference

12:25 p.m. EST

OPERATOR: Hello, and welcome to today's teleconference. At the request
of the
company, this conference is being recorded. Mr. Casey, you may begin.

MR. CASEY: Okay, thank you, everyone, for joining us. Sorry it's taken
us a few
minutes to get to you. Appreciate you joining us on Memorial Day and
appreciate
having with us as well Ambassador Ryan Crocker from Baghdad. As you
know, he
has met today with his Iranian counterpart to discuss some of the
common
concerns and issues that the United States and Iran have related to
Iraq. And
I'll just turn it over to you, Ryan, let you make a couple of
introductory
remarks, and then we'll go right to questions.

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Thanks, Tom. Good afternoon, I guess it is, for
you,
everybody. I'll be brief here. You've already seen a lot of this on the
wires.
I met this morning with my Iranian counterpart at an event hosted by
the Iraqi
Prime Minister. We spent about four hours in total in talks. The Iraqis
were
part of the discussion throughout. The Prime Minister hosted the first
session
and the subsequent discussion was hosted on the Iraqi side by the
National
Security Advisor Dr. Rubaie. So these were not U.S.-Iranian bilaterals.
The
Iraqis were not only present and participating; in a very real sense,
they took
the lead in organizing discussion.

I would repeat what I said earlier, that I would call these discussions
businesslike. At the level of policy and principle, the Iranian
position, as
articulated by the Iranian Ambassador, was very close to our own:
support for a
stable, secure, democratic, federal Iraq that is able to control its
borders,
is at peace with its neighbors and is bringing prosperity to its
citizens.
Though again, on that level, there was fairly broad agreement.

We agreed as well that there should be a focus on security, and there
we made
it clear in some detail where we see Iranian behavior inconsistent with
stated
Iranian policy. We told the Iranians today that their support for armed
militia
groups that are challenging the authority of the Iraqi Government and
attacking
coalition soldiers needs to stop, and we were quite, quite clear on
that point.

The final thing I'd say before I go to your questions is that the Iraqi
side
indicated that they would want to issue an invitation for another
meeting
sometime in the near future. Once we receive that invitation, obviously
we'll
give it close consideration, but nothing was fixed in this meeting with
respect
to a follow-on meeting. And with that, I'm happy to take your
questions.

OPERATOR: Thank you. At this time, we will begin our Q&A session. If
you would
like to ask a question, press *1 on your telephone touch pad. You will
be
prompted to record your name for pronunciation purposes only. If at any
time
you wish to withdraw your question, press *2. Once again, that's *1 to
ask your
question. Please record your name in order that your question will be
addressed.

Our first question comes from:

QUESTION: Sue Pleming, Reuters. Yes, hello. I wonder, do you think that
this
meeting marks a sort of a change in your relationship, in the
relationship
between the United States and Iran? And did you discuss at all that the
next
meeting could be at a ministerial level or higher than the envoy level?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Thank you for asking that. The subjects and focus
of the
meeting was Iraq and how the United States and Iran can help and
support the
government and people of Iraq in improving conditions here,
particularly
security conditions. There was no other item on the agenda; nothing
else was
discussed.

In terms of level, there was no discussion on any change in the level.
Since
the subject is Iraq, it, I think, seems quite appropriate that the
respective
ambassadors to Iraq handle the dialogue.

QUESTION: What was the -- you said the mood was businesslike. I mean,
is this
someone you think you can do business with? Do you think that they will
act on
the requests that you made in terms of trying to reduce violence and
stopping
support for militias?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Well, that is what we need to see. Again, we were
quite
clear on what we see on the ground and quite clear in describing how
damaging
we believe it is to Iraq's own efforts to establish security and
stability, and
that it needs to stop. So we'll obviously be watching closely to see
what the
results are.

QUESTION: Thanks.

OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from:

QUESTION: Jonathan Beale, BBC. Thank you, Ambassador. You said no other
issues
were discussed, so I take it that you didn't raise the issue of the
Iranian
Americans who have been arrested by Tehran. And also, I'd just like to
ask you
when you said that when you told them that their policy was
inconsistent with
their actions, was there any acknowledgement that there was an
inconsistency
there, that they had been involved in supporting militants -- militia
in
training and arms?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: On the first, you're right; the meeting was
exclusively
about Iraq. We're dealing with the issue of the detained American
citizens via
the Swiss Government, which is our diplomatic -- formal diplomatic
channel to
the Iranians. And through that channel, we've made it clear that the
Iranians
should let these private citizens go; they are not a party to any
policy
differences between our governments. But that was not on the agenda
here in
Baghdad today.

And remind me -- it's been a long day -- what the second part was?

QUESTION: The second part was about -- you mentioned the inconsistency
between
the states policy of Iran and their actions. I think I'm just trying to
get to
whether there was any acknowledgement that there may have been
inconsistency,
any acknowledgement that they were involved in supporting militants.

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: No, there was no acknowledgement. In fact, there
was very
little comment on the issue from the Iranian delegates. They reserved
their
right to respond at some point in the future, but made no detailed
response
during our discussions today.

QUESTION: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from:

QUESTION: Eli Lake, New York Sun. Hi, Ambassador Crocker. I wanted to
ask if
you could get into any more detail about the presentation that you made
to the
Iranians. And also, can you give us a sense -- I mean, there have been
talks
with the Iranians on and off for a long time at certain levels in Iraq.
What
gives you -- do you have any sense of -- are more optimistic that this
time
they'll stop what you say they are doing?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Well, on the first part, I laid out the fact that
we have
solid evidence linking Iran to the support of armed militant groups
that are
attacking our soldiers, Iraqi security forces and innocent civilians.
We made
clear we are aware that Iraq is supplying -- Iran is supplying such
groups with
arms and ammunition and explosives, including explosively formed
projectiles;
that we know this, that we know the Revolutionary Guard's Quds Force is
the
lead instrument in pursuing this policy, and that they need to stop
this
behavior that is killing our soldiers, Iraqi soldiers and innocent
Iraqis.

This was not a presentation of judicial quality evidence. It was simply
making
it clear to the Iraqi -- the Iranians that we know what they're doing.
They
already presumably know what they're doing, so this was a way of making
it
clear that we know what they're up to.

In terms of contacts, you know, there have been very brief contacts
here in
Baghdad in March at a working level meeting of neighboring countries
and
others, and a brief contact when I was in Sharm el-Sheikh but --
earlier this
month. But essentially, we have not been in direct discussions with the
Iranians.

Whether that will actually produce results, I think right now is up to
them
whether they choose to align their behavior on the ground with their
stated
policy, because right now it isn't.

QUESTION: Can I just follow up? Can you say what groups you said they
were
providing the explosives to and can you say whether you're -- when you
say
armed militant groups attacking our soldiers and coalition forces, are
you
referring to groups that we would consider Sunni groups?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: We believe that the Iranians have variously
supported both
Sunni insurgent groups that are attacking us, as well as radical Shia
groups
such as some elements of the Jaish al-Mahdi.

OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from:

QUESTION: Barbara Slavin of USA Today. Hi, Ryan.

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Hey, Barbara.

QUESTION: Thanks for doing this. I wanted to ask, the way you portray
this is
you say it's not bilateral. I mean, did we do this really just because
the
Iraqis were urging us to do this? Did we agree to do this because the
Iraq
Study Group proposed it? Why now, when there had been a reluctance to
have
these kinds of meetings so much in the past?

And also just on the atmospherics, was there anyone in the room that
you had
met before? How would you compare this with the talks that you
conducted that
were not publicized back in 2001 and 2002? Did you speak in English?
Did you
eat together?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Okay. On the first, we see these talks as growing
out of
the neighbors conference initiative, that you remember in March there
was a
brief direct exchange here in Baghdad. We had another brief direct
exchange in
Sharm el-Sheikh in which we discussed the possibility of sitting down
more
formally. The Iraqis made clear that they thought that would be a good
step, so
we've done it. But again, the progression is it flows out of the
neighbors
conference initiative. That got started in March and so here we are at
the end
of May having this meeting. As I noted, the Iraqis did urge it and
that's
obviously -- we take their positions on this and other matters,
obviously, very
seriously. But it really fits in, I think, to the neighbors conference
initiative.

No, I had not previously met any of the members of the Iranian
delegation. The
talks that we had had previously on Afghanistan were, I think, you
know, less
formal in nature. They were under UN auspices rather than any
governmental
auspices, and I think for those reasons maybe a little less formal in
their
nature than we were today.

QUESTION: Did you speak in English? Did you break bread together?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: We -- well, we drank tea together. How's that?
Actually, a
variety of languages; English, Farsi and Arabic were all in play at
various
times.

QUESTION: Okay, thank you.

OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from Bob Drogin.

QUESTION: Mr. Ambassador, hi, it's Bob Drogin with the Los Angeles
Times.
Thanks for doing this. I just wanted to go back to something you said
at the
very beginning, which is that the Iraqi side said they would issue
another
invitation and once you get it, you'll consider it. And I'm just
wondering if
that's suggesting some hesitation on your part, whether there's some
reluctance
to continue this or why you're using that language, whether there's
some
question as to whether these talks were useful or not.

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Well, simply because, as I said when asked about
this
before the meeting, it still applies: We're taking this step by step.
Again,
the point of these discussions is not about U.S.-Iranian relations.
It's about
what can make things better in Iraq.

We've laid out some concerns. We'll be watching to see what action is
taken.
We'll be looking at the overall situation and, you know, we'll keep all
of our
options open. Again, we don't have a formal invitation to respond to
just yet,
so it doesn't make sense to respond to what's not there. You know,
we'll just
kind of take this as it comes.

QUESTION: And if I could just follow on that, you said you'll be
watching to
see what action is taken. What are you anticipating or what will you
specifically be watching for?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Well, what we would obviously like to see and I
think the
Iraqis clearly would like to see is action by Iran on the ground to
bring what
it's actually doing in line with its stated policy. Its stated policy
is very
close to our own. Their actions don't support the policy. That's what
we'd like
to see change: the support for the militants and so forth that I was
describing
earlier.

QUESTION: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from:

QUESTION: Zane Verjee, CNN. Thank you, Ambassador Crocker. Could you
give us a
little bit more detail on what this idea of a three-way mechanism is
that Iran
proposed to you in the meeting? What specifically did they propose? Can
you
give us details about that?

And secondly, was there any more ground that you wanted to cover in
this
meeting but you didn't?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: The Iranians proposed a security mechanism to deal
with
issues relating to security, and that's about all the detail that there
was. My
comment at the time was that that sounded very much like the meeting
that we
were sitting in, since we had agreed that since we had reasonably good
alignment at the level of policy and principle, the area that required
our
focus was security both because it is a critical concern for Iraq and
because
there we obviously have differences. So it was not apparent to me
exactly what
the distinction was between what they were proposing and what we were
already
doing.

And again, you'll have to forgive me. I have managed to forget the
second part
of your question.

QUESTION: That's okay. Was there any more ground that you wanted to
cover in
the meeting but didn't?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: No, we had the opportunity again to lay out pretty
clearly
and at sufficient length what our concerns were and what we thought
needed to
change. It obviously would have been good to have had more response
from the
Iranians, but we had the opportunity to say what we felt needed to be
said.

QUESTION: Were you disappointed with the extent of their response, at
least
detailing to you their own perceptions, for example, on the security
mechanism?
Would you characterize it that way? Were you a little bit disappointed?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: I wouldn't say I was disappointed. I think it would
not
have been reasonable to expect that going into this meeting that a
single
meeting was going to produce instant, measurable, positive results. I
just
don't -- I didn't think that was realistic before and therefore I'm not
particularly disappointed now.

I was, you know, again, somewhat encouraged that the Iranians took the
opportunity to lay out their policy in positive terms. And again, as I
said, it
matched pretty closely to our own. They obviously could have come at
this in a
variety of different ways, you know, many of them negative. They didn't
do
that. They led with a positive policy declaration. So, you know, I
found that,
you know, somewhat encouraging. I wouldn't make a huge amount out of
this
single meeting and what was said in it either positive or negative.
Again, what
really counts is what actually happens that affects for the better
security in
Iraq.

QUESTION: Thank you.

OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from:

QUESTION: Dan DeLuce, AFP. Yes, I just wanted to know, was there
anything
beyond what you've described, any kind of tentative suggestions or
notions that
were -- both sides saw as possible areas for future exploration or
discussion
or even action?

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: No, I can't really pick anything. The Iraqis put
forward
several topics for discussion on a security level that I'll let them
articulate
if they care to do so. I won't do it on their behalf. It seemed to me
to have
some promise as an agenda. We'll see whether, if we have a follow-on
meeting,
whether those develop into a concrete agenda and so forth. But you
know, this
was basically an exchange of policy views on the part of all three of
us, and
then on our side an iteration of the dissonance that we see between
policy as
stated and policy as implemented, and on their side basically this
proposal for
a security mechanism.

MR. CASEY: Okay, I think we've got time maybe for just one more here,
so why
don't we take the last question.

OPERATOR: Thank you. Our next question comes from:

QUESTION: Guy Dinmore, Financial Times. Ambassador, thank you very
much. Guy
Dinmore from the FT here. At the weekend, Muqtada al-Sadr gave this
very
powerful speech, his first appearance in some months. Can you say
whether or
not you discussed his role in Iraq and his relationship with Iran? And
did the
Iranians raise at all what they have said in public, which is that they
have
accused both U.S. and British forces of also destabilizing Iran across
the
border by supporting anti-Iranian elements? Thank you very much.

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Let's see. Working back to front, no, the Iranians
did not
raise in this meeting their public accusations of the last day or so.

With respect to Sadr, they did not address him at all. I addressed the
problem
of Iranian -- specifically Quds Force -- support for radical elements
in the
Jaish al-Mahdi. As you know, Guy, the Sadrist movement is a highly
diversified
one, not to say fragmented, and it is by no means clear to me, for
example,
that Muqtada al-Sadr has control over some of these elements in Jaish
al-Mahdi.
But it's pretty clear to us that the Iranians do.

QUESTION: Thank you.

MR. CASEY: Okay. And I think with that, Ambassador Crocker, thank you
again
very much for taking the time to talk with everyone today. And to all
of you
out there, thanks for joining us and I hope that we all enjoy the rest
of
Memorial Day weekend. Talk to you all later.

AMBASSADOR CROCKER: Thanks, Tom. Thank you, all.

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The transfer of the security file to the Kurdistan region this week

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From Abdulhamid Zebari

Jabbar Yoralenatuk official announced to the General Commander of the forces protecting Kurdistan, Under-Secretary, Ministry of Public s government in Kurdistan province, Monday, that the formal transfer of the security file from the multinational forces to be Peshmargas forces this week in the city of Irbil, the presence of the President of the Kurdistan and the Iraqi prime minister.

The spokesman said in a statement to the Independent News Agency (Voices of Iraq) "since eight Achehrunhan discussing how to transfer Muf security forces to the multinational forces in the Kurdistan region Peshmargas, was arranged procedures for the transfer of the security file at the ceremony will be held this week in Arbil."

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He added, "will give Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki head of the federal Kurdistan region Massoud Barzani to sign a memorandum of understanding with the commander of multinational forces."

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Referring to the importance of this note, and said, "are of great importance in regulating the relations of the Armed Forces of the territorial government with multinational forces."
He said that both the Iraqi Prime Minister and General Commander of the multinational forces in Iraq, representatives of the House and the Iraqi government and Iraqi ambassadors of America, Britain and other countries will participate in the ceremonies.
On the other hand, The Deputy Minister of Public s that meeting was held Monday in Salah Eddin summer resort to the General Command of the protection forces of Kurdistan under Masoud Barzani was talking about how to conduct talks with the Iraqi government on ways of participation in the peacekeeping forces s security forces to the multinational force and Iraqi Kurdish areas outside of the authority of the province, such as Khanaqin and Mandali and Sadiyyah and Mosul.
He added : "We want to hold talks at a high level with the coalition forces and the Iraqi government, s participation in a legal manner to the other forces in ensuring security and stability in these areas and confront terrorism."
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Tariq Al-Hashmi receives an official invitation to visit Egypt

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May 28, 2007

May 28, 2007

Receiving Vice-President Tarek Hashemi official invitation of Egyptian Prime Minister Ahmed Nazif's visit to the Arab Republic of Egypt, to discuss a number of issues of common interest at the regional and international levels.
His Excellency has welcomed the invitation and promised to perform in the next few days.

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American Iranian talks : Agreement to a stable Iraq

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American Iranian talks : Agreement to a stable Iraq ..The differences in the details

Crocker : Tehran to connect words with deeds> Kazemi : our training and arming the Iraqi army> Maliki must find a formula to support Iraq's security

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BAGHDAD : Numan Alheims London : «Middle East»
The United States and Iran during a rare formal talks took place yesterday in Baghdad, the need for stability in Iraq, but disagreed on how to reach this goal, firing mutual accusations after the meeting, which lasted 4 hours.
According to sources close to the talks that the American side accused Tehran of arming militias to destabilize Iraq and control, with Iran, for its part, stressed the impossibility of restoring security to Iraq only after the departure of American forces. The American Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker, who headed the American side, the talks, the first of its kind at this level since 1980, were positive, but like «talks work», explaining that the two parties agree on a stable Iraq. He said the Iranian ambassador in Baghdad, Hassan Kazemi Apical who headed his country's delegation, said that Iran believes in the talks steps «positive», as demanded Iraqi prime minister at the opening of the hearings, the parties to raise the level of communication between them, and reach a joint formula that would support national and regional security.

The American Ambassador to Iraq, Ryan Crocker told reporters at the conclusion of the meeting, he had asked the Iranian side to support its words with deeds stop the supply of arms and ammunition to the fighters in Iraq. He accused Iran Crocker backed «militias fighting Iraqi and American forces», and «In fact, many of the explosives and ammunition used by groups from Iran to Iraq». He added «But the Iranians did not answer that», he replied, saying that his terminology public about his country's support of Iraq and the government of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki. He said that «a meeting was similar to the talks work; We have raised, as well as Iranians, the principles guiding the policy of each of our countries towards Iraq ». He continued, «There was a very good match in all issues such as supporting a stable, democratic and federal control of the safe and live in peace with its neighbors». It seems that Crocker tried to put pressure on Iran in the issue of stopping the violence, and said «explained from the viewpoint of the American that it was deeds and not principles, and offered to the Iranians our concern about behavior in Iraq». He stressed the need to emphasize their support for Iran owners by halting support to the armed groups in Iraq. He said «not the purpose of our meeting in this building legal issue, it is assumed that the Iranians know what they are doing, our objective was simply to say that we also know that this is a threat to Iraq».

He continued Crocker «what we need is for the Iranians after the advent of application principles», adding that «Iranians acts on the ground should be consistent with the principles». The American Ambassador to Iran rejected a proposal that the establishment of the tripartite security includes representatives Iraqis and Americans and the Iranians. The «My comment to that was that the goal of the meeting must not be arranging meetings again, and we do now is, in fact, the security that there is a lot of arguing about the policy level».

Meanwhile, the Iranian ambassador told Iranian television «put some of the problems examined and I think that this is a positive step .. At the political level the two sides agreed to support and strengthen the Iraqi government, and this is another positive step made in these talks ».He said that Iran has offered to assist in training and arming the Iraqi army. Iran promised to help in this matter. The Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki expressed «hope that this will be the beginning of a new chapter and an important step for the region».

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He added «I hope that the meeting would bring a general understanding, to be followed by further meetings to resolve outstanding issues» between the two countries.

The Maliki «We want an Iraq free, stable, free from international forces, and not turned into bases for terrorist organizations cause harm to neighboring». He continued, «look forward to similar positions in other states, particularly neighboring states». Maliki pointed out that «the presence of multinational forces in Iraq under complete readiness of the Iraqi security forces, and their survival is linked to the need of security».

He stressed that «Iraq will be a springboard to threaten any of the neighboring countries». He also noted that «Iraq considers the decisions of the Sharm el-Sheikh good basis to support and cooperate with Iraq to implement mutual obligations and commitments». He called for «support of the three commissions and put into practice the recommendations».

He expressed hope that the United States and Iran in «supporting Iraqi demands to be put forward in these committees», stressing his country's keenness on «nurture and raise the level of diplomatic participation in the interests of all parties».

He called Maliki «regional States and neighboring countries, to adopt the language of direct dialogue as the only means of understanding and dispel doubts solve crises, including serving the security, stability and sovereignty ..

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Iraq is reflected positively on regional and global security ».Formal talks were held amid mutual accusations of causing chaos in Iraq. It was not expected to reach agreement, especially in the indictment of the Iranian Foreign Ministry agents of the Americans of trying to destabilize its border regions with Iraq. The news agency reported that the Foreign summoned Swiss Ambassador's sponsor his American interests in Tehran for his extradition «strongest protest at government interference American hostility».

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He informed Ambassador Philip nights that «Iran recently seized espionage networks aim carry out acts of sabotage in central and south-west Iran», according to Iranian media organizations.

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The sources added that «these spies are directed by the U.S. intelligence». Washington had rejected similar accusations, and the cooling of relations between them. The students extremists had stormed the United States embassy in Tehran and held dozens of hostages in 1979 after the Islamic revolution. The conflict in Iraq has increased tension in relations between the two countries; It accuses the American Army militia Iran provide arms and munitions. It also accuses the American army Iranian Revolutionary Guard processing armed groups explosives miraculous armor led to the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers. For its part, Iran accuses «occupation forces» American creating tensions and provoke unrest and disturbances in the Iranian border towns.

The talks were held between the two sides on security in Iraq attended by Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, Muwaffaq Al-Rubaie and the national security adviser, Lubaid Abbawi, announced Undersecretary of the Iraqi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Skinner spokesman for the Iraqi government.

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Leading into the cage : we will call for political war if the shelling Sadr City

Mohan Sa'idi emphasized that the population collectively punished

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Sa'idi emphasized Mohan Deputy Prime prominent member of the Baghdad governorate in the current sternum, which is led by Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr «that Sadr City and subjected to daily shelling and air raids and widespread by the American forces, which led to the disruption of the whole of all services, including semi-collective punishment of the city».
He called Sa'idi told «Middle East» to know the reasons for targeting the city at the time «Everyone knows that these are among the more Iraqi cities safer». He accused the American forces b «seeking to raise the Shiite street». He noted that the operations were done without the knowledge of some of those who formed them room to impose law and the Baghdad governorate.

And on the bloc Chest initiatives for cooperation with the Iraqi government, emphasized «that this matter has been announced more than once, and by representatives bloc in the parliament and the clergy, and the latest, announced by the leader of the bloc in another sermon in Kufa mosque, where publicly called to stand with the government and support for stability while the security situation in Iraq Pan ».He said that leaders bloc chest in Sadr City, confirmed many times their willingness to assist the security agencies.

And the reactions to expect Sa'idi of the city's residents, stressed that in the event that such practices would «There are calls for a declaration of war, not a peaceful civilized armament There is a difference between the barbarity of built between civilization and of ruining We know who wants to destroy». He added «say that the city's residents and their supporters in all parts of Iraq can get out in a peaceful demonstration, the streets remain until they achieve what they wish, or death on the roads».

Regarding the current scheduling demands the withdrawal of American forces from Iraq, Deputy Chairman of the Baghdad governorate «on behalf of all current leaders commended the efforts of the members of parliament to get a resolution scheduling of the withdrawal, and this was reassigned as the legitimate and legal representatives of the people. and also appeal to the Iraqi government is pressuring all directions to achieve the withdrawal of the multinational forces from Iraq », stressing that Iraqis are able to regulate their own affairs and manage their own« This is not anything new to them, they knew this thousands of years ago and began the first constitution in history ».

Current sternum and withdrawal from the government asking for the appointment of independent ministers, the «cage trend that rejects the idea of sharing political and governmental distribution of positions to the winners».

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He added : «withdrawal decision came to the Department of ministries by people who have professional experience; Any suitable man in the right place, and this trend we started even applied at the level of all the facilities that is the State would pay the political process forward, and then it is the presence of foreign troops to help is not necessary and no alternative but to withdraw from Iraq ».

As for the resurgence of Shiite leader Will it be the beginning of a trend return to the political process? Between that «trend exists either in the political process or public domain, but the excitement of the moment for this presence, and we shall soon have to adopt new policies and mechanisms to work with our people, and also on a political level, all centered around serving Iraq and the people of Iraq», He said «The emergence or lack of emergence of the current leader would not affect the results, it is, and will also march to complete his family mujahid not know fear not blowing power and domination».

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