Iran and the US are to hold ambassadorial level talks on Iraq, the Iranian foreign minister said today, in the first substantive contacts between the countries for years.

The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) approved that Iran has the required knowledge for enriching uranium.

US and Iranian officials will meet in Baghdad later this month to discuss issues involving Iraq, Iraqi Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari said Thursday.

Unfortunately after three months since the five Iranian diplomats were kidnapped during a raid by the US troops on Iran’s consulate general in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil, Americans still deny the diplomatic right of the five to have a consulate meeting, an informed source told FNA.

Head of Iran-Iraq friendship association Ali Agha-Mohammadi in a meeting with the Prime Minister of the local government of Iraq’s Kurdistan, Nichervan Barezani, on Wednesday stressed the need for the restoration of calm and stability in Iraq.

Supreme Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei Wednesday stressed that the upcoming talks between Iran and the US will only include a discussion of the duties of foreign troops for restoring security in Iraq.

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said some agents working for the enemies of the Iranian nation seek to sow seeds of discord between Iran and regional countries while all regional states are cooperating with each other in a brotherly manner.

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Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator Ali Larijani and EU Foreign Policy Chief Javier Solana decided to attend a new round of talks at the end of May.

Hezbollah’s spokesman Hossein Rahal said direct talks between Iran and the US would push Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora’s cabinet to failure.