BAGHDAD, Iraq — Iran has invited the Iraqi and Syrian presidents to Tehran for a weekend summit with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to hash out ways to cooperate in curbing the runaway violence that has taken Iraq to the verge of civil war and threatens to spread through the region, four key lawmakers told The Associated Press on Monday.
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Iraqi President Jalal Talabani has accepted the invitation and will fly to the Iranian capital Saturday, a close parliamentary associate said.
The Iranian diplomatic gambit appeared designed to upstage expected moves from Washington to include Syria and Iran in a wider regional effort to clamp off violence in Iraq, where more civilians have been killed in the first 20 days of November than in any other month since the AP began tallying the figures in April 2005.
The United States just got up-staged by the Iranians.
So much for taking the lead in finding a solution for Iraq. We invade a country and Iran gets to take credit for trying to clean up the mess.
Bush foreign policy sucks. We have to wait for a report to take the first step. We seem to be "staying the course".:cool:
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