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Iran tells US to admit 'failure' in Iraq

Iran said the US should admit to a 'failure' of its policies in Iraq in the upcoming meeting on Iraq's security if it wants the talks to progress.

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TEHRAN: Iran on Friday said the United States should admit to a "failure" of its policies in Iraq in the upcoming Tehran-Washington meeting on Iraq's security if it wants the talks to progress.

"If the Americans admit to the failure of their policies in Iraq, have serious will to correct the current situation, and help the Iraqi people and government to implement security there, these talks can progress and create hope," Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said.

US and Iranian envoys are to meet in Baghdad on May 28 for talks on Iraq's security in what is believed to be the first official bilateral ambassadorial encounter between the arch-foes in three decades.

Iran will send an "experienced diplomat who has been an ambassador" to meet the US ambassador to Baghdad Ryan Crocker, Mottaki said.

Both sides insist the talks would be limited to the security of Iraq and Mottaki said they would not discuss the release of seven Iranians seized by US forces in northern Iraq in January.

"The May 28 talks will only revolve around the issue of Iraq and a step towards helping security there," Mottaki said after meeting the families of the detainees that Iran maintains were diplomats working for a "consulate".

He said it was up to the Iraqi officials to press the release of the men accused by the United States of being intelligence agents.

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