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Iran to attend key meeting on stabilising Iraq
Iran will attend a conference of key powers including the United States this week that will focus on stabilising Iraq, a meeting Baghdad said might be a turning point for regional cooperation in easing the violence.
Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshiyar Zebari said there was a ?high possibility? that arch foes Tehran and Washington would hold bilateral talks at the May 3-4 conference in Egypt.
The U.S. State Department has said Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will take part in the meeting at the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh and was open to direct talks with Iran over Iraq.
Tehran said it would send a delegation headed by Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki ?with the aim of helping the Iraqi nation and government?.
US officials accuse Shi'ite Iran of training and supplying weapons to Shi'ite militias in Iraq, a charge Tehran denies.
Relations between Iraq and Iran, both predominantly Sh'ite countries, have improved since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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