Iran, U.S. officials to meet on Iraq

    ISLAMABAD, May 17 (Xinhua) -- Iranian and U.S. officials will meet in Iraq on May 28 to discuss security in Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said here Thursday.

    He told a press conference on the sidelines of the foreign ministers' meeting of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) that Iraq would be the only topic of the Iran-U.S. talks. Full story

Iran's Khamenei says unchanged in policy of not negotiating with Washington

    TEHRAN, May 16 (Xinhua) -- Iranian supreme leader Ayatollah AliKhamenei on Wednesday stated that Tehran's policy of not negotiating with Washington was unchanged though there will be talks with the United States over Iraq.

    The talks would not mean a breakthrough between the two foes as Iran would merely use the talks with U.S. diplomats to remind Washington of its "occupiers' duty" in the conflict-torn Iraq, state-run television quoted Khamenei as saying. Full story

Iran, U.S. hold expert-level talks

    SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, May 4 (Xinhua) -- Iran and the United States held expert-level talks here Friday on the sideline of an international meeting on Iraqi security at this Egyptian Red Sea resort despite Tehran's harsh words against Washington.

    The meeting was firstly revealed by Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari, who told a press conference following the Iraqi security meeting that the American-Iranian meeting took place at expert level, not at foreign minister level. Full story