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US and Iran Finally Meet to Discuss Iraq
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Iraq Is the Only Topic of
Conversation as the US and Iran Finally Meet
By Rupert Cornwell
The Independent UK
Tuesday
29 May 2007
Iran and the United States have finally broken the diplomatic ice with face-to-face talks that both sides described as a "positive" first step in the search to stabilise Iraq.
Whether the four hours of talks yesterday between the two countries' ambassadors to Baghdad produced any concrete agreement was far from clear last night. But both Tehran and Washington said the discussions - the first direct, bilateral and publicly announced meeting between them in a generation - had been a worthwhile exercise.
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