Iran sees no need to immediately revive a dialogue with arch-foe, the United States, following the latest round of talks to discuss who should govern postwar Iraq. âThis dialogue has stopped now and we see no reason to revive it for the time being,â the London-based Arabic daily Al-Hayat quoted Foreign Minister Kamal Kharrazi as saying. âWe entered into an honest dialogue with the Americans to create a government in Iraq that has popular support but they kept on changing their minds and also changing their representatives in Iraq.â
Iranian President Mohammad Khatami said earlier this month the Geneva talks were the latest round in a dialogue under United Nationsâ supervision which he said dates back to the time of the US campaign to topple the Taliban regime in Afghanistan after the September 11, 2001 attacks on US cities. Khatami described the differences between Iran and the United States as âserious and hugeâ, but said it would repeated in the future. He did not rule out an eventual improvement of ties with the United States, severed following the 1979 Islamic revolution, if Washington dropped what he called a US penchant for aggression and threats.
| I'd guess we'd maybe do that if Iran drops is support for an international line of fine terror networks. |
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