ROME, April 14 (Xinhuanet) -- Italy will resort to dialogue with Iran and other Islamic countries in efforts to free the four Italians taken hostage in Iraq, Italian Foreign Minister Franco Frattini said Wednesday.

    "We'll do everything to try to free the four Italian hostages, knowing that giving in would play the terrorists' game, but maintaining the dialogue we have had for a while with many Islamic countries, with Iran in particular, a dialogue that I myself have consolidated in these days," Frattini said when interviewed by an Italian state radio.

    The four Italians were abducted in Iraq on Monday.

    Italy, with some 3,000 soldiers and paramilitary police in Iraq, is the third largest coalition partner among the occupying forces. Enditem