Talks in Iran are postponed

There has been a distinct lack of evidence for the U.S. contention that Iran is supplying Iraqi insurgents with weapons. It may be true that these weapons are coming from Iran without the government's knowledge or support.

What is known, however, is that overthrowing a secular leader that kept the Sunnis on top of a Shia majority nation has been a big plus for Iran, aside from eliminating it's most feared regional foe. Had the circumstances been reversed, the U.S. would certainly have taken advantage of the situation in a similar way. It is also known that the U.S. is financing separatist insurgents within Iran, whose most notable "military" achievement has been to blow up a school bus full of children. In the U.S. military calculus, killing someone's children makes them like you a lot more. How could this plan possibly fail?

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U.S, Iranians postpone talks on Iraqi violence

14/12/2007

BAGHDAD, (Reuters) - The second meeting of a U.S.- Iranian committee set up to find ways to quell Iraq's violence has been postponed because of a scheduling conflict, U.S. and Iraqi officials said on Friday.

U.S., Iranian and Iraqi officials had been due to meet in Baghdad next Tuesday and are now trying to find a date later this month that suits everyone.

"A scheduling conflict has necessitated in moving the talks, which we had anticipated to be next week," said a spokesman for the U.S. embassy in Baghdad, Philip Reeker.

Iraqi Deputy Foreign Minister Labeed Abawi said he expected the Iraqi-hosted talks to take place within the next few days.

Washington accuses Iran of arming, funding and training Shi'ite militias in Iraq, a charge Tehran denies.

U.S. officials, however, have softened their rhetoric towards Iran in recent weeks, saying Tehran appears to have cut back its supply of explosively formed penetrators, a particularly deadly type of roadside bomb, to the militias.