Great News: Iran to Attend Regional Talks on Iraq Violence

From The New York Times:

The government of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran announced Sunday that it would attend a regional conference on Iraq later this week, setting the stage for the first cabinet-level meeting between Iran and the United States since the end of 2004.

The regional meeting . . . is expected to draw the foreign ministers from Iraq’s neighbors, including Syria, as well as Egypt, Bahrain and the permanent members of the United Nations Security Council. Many of those attending represent Sunni Muslim governments that worry that Iran and Iraq, which are both dominated by Shiite Muslims, represent a growing threat to regional stability and their own power.
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We all recall that meeting with Iran and Syria was one of the recommendations of the Iraq Study Group led by former Secretary of State James Baker and former Democratic Rep. Lee Hamilton that President Bush so far has refused to do. Maybe some good will come out of diplomacy.