US, Iran to meet on Iraq despite tensions

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WASHINGTON, Nov 21 (AFP): Tough talk on Iran's nuclear program has raised the specter of a possible US attack, but tensions between the two diplomatic foes nevertheless appear to have eased on the issue of securing Iraq.
Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said Tuesday that Iran had accepted an invitation by Washington for a fourth round of bilateral talks on curbing bloodshed in Iran's violence-wracked western neighbor.
"Iran has agreed with this request within the framework of its policy of helping the Iraqi people," Mottaki told reporters.
"The exact date of the fourth round of the talks will be announced in the near future" in Iraq, he said.
He said Washington had requested the new talks through the Swiss embassy in Tehran, which looks after US interests in Iran in the absence of a US mission.