Security Talks Failing

TEHRAN (FNA)- Iraq's Foreign Minister says efforts to bring together US and Iranian officials to discuss security in Iraq are faltering due to conflicts of timing and schedules.

Iraq is pressing for a fourth meeting that has yet to be scheduled. Hoshyar Zebari said the two sides need to stick to an agreed date.

He further reminded Iraqi officials had managed to get Iran and the US to agree on four dates, but none of them worked because of scheduling reasons...

The US and Iranian ambassadors held the first round of talks in May, a rare meeting between the two countries, which have not had formal relations since early after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution...

The United States and Iran broke diplomatic relations in April 1980, after Iranian students seized the United States' espionage center at its embassy in the heart of Tehran. The two countries have had tense relations ever since.

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After losing friendly ties in 1980, the relationship between the United States and Iran has been rather bitter, to say the least. Will the two countries ever make peace with each other?

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