Always read the end of the article.
http://www.latimes.com/...
By John Daniszewski and Kasra Naji, Special to The LA Times
March 17, 2006
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Iran's foreign policy chief, Ali Larijani, told reporters in Tehran that the decision to hold talks on Iraq with the United States followed a request from two Iraqi leaders: Abdelaziz Hakim of the pro-Iranian Shiite group Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq and interim President Jalal Talabani, a Kurd. Shiites make up a majority in the two Persian Gulf nations.
"Iraq is our natural ally, and its security is of principal importance to us," Larijani said after he had briefed parliament in a closed session. "Since this has been asked from us by Mr. Hakim, we have agreed to this request to help resolve the issues in Iraq, and to assist with the formation of an independent and genuinely free Iraq."
He said members of the negotiating team would be appointed soon. He did not say when or at what level the talks would be held.
Larijani, who is also Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, hinted that other policy adjustments were possible. He answered a question about Iran's nuclear strategy by saying that "change in policies for arriving at our aims is mubah," a religious term for "permissible."
A senior aide to the Iranian president gave backing to the move, saying in an interview in Tehran that there was an urgent need for direct talks between the two countries, given the security situation in the region and Iraq.
"The fact that the Americans have reached the conclusion that they cannot resolve regional issues without Iran is in itself a huge victory for Iran and shows the determining role of Iran in the region," said the aide, Hamid Reza Taraghi.
Taraghi said Iran could use this opportunity to resolve other problems, although Larijani indicated that the talks would focus on Iraq.
This would be a chance to move toward world peace. If someone in america could attempt to reach out to Iran and to people around the world who do not want to be dominated.
But that would require someone in america admiting we have done bad things in the past to other nations, (like Iran).
http://www.iranchamber.com/...
Coup 53 of Iran is the CIA's (Central Intelligence Agency) first successful overthrow of a foreign government.
But a copy of the agency's secret history of the coup has surfaced, revealing the inner workings of a plot that set the stage for the Islamic revolution in 1979, and for a generation of anti-American hatred in one of the Middle East's most powerful countries. The document, which remains classified, discloses the pivotal role British intelligence officials played in initiating and planning the coup, and it shows that Washington and London shared an interest in maintaining the West's control over Iranian oil.
The secret history, written by the CIA's chief coup planner, says the operation's success was mostly a matter of chance. The document shows that the agency had almost complete contempt for the man it was empowering, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi. And it recounts, for the first time, the agency's badly tried to seduce and force the shah into taking part in his own coup.
The operation, code-named TP-AJAX, was the blueprint for a succession of CIA plots to foment coups and destabilize governments during the cold war - including the agency's successful coup in Guatemala in 1954 and the disastrous Cuban intervention known as the Bay of Pigs in 1961. In more than one instance, such operations led to the same kind of long-term animosity toward the United States that occurred in Iran.