"Any of those conversations that may occur on the margins are entirely separate from the conversations about Iran's nuclear program," White House spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters traveling with President Barack Obama.
"Any conversations with the Iranian regime will not include military coordination," Earnest said. "We're not interested in any effort to coordinate military activities with Iran."
[dailystar.com.lb]
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- The US is contemplating talks with its arch-enemy Iran to support the Iraqi government in its battle with Sunni Islamist insurgents who routed Baghdad's army and seized the north of the country in the past week.
The US is considering air strikes to help the Iraqi government fend off the stunning onslaught by militants from the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) as well as possible discussions with neighboring Iran, US Secretary of State John Kerry said on Monday.
"I wouldn't rule out anything that would be constructive," Kerry told Yahoo News..........http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/866057.shtml
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry said the United States is interested in communicating with Iran to share information about the Sunni insurgency spreading across Iraq, but Washington is not seeking to work together with Tehran to address the crisis....
ReplyDelete"We are interested in communicating with Iran. That the Iranians know what we're thinking, that we know what they're thinking and there is a sharing of information so people aren't making mistakes," Kerry said in an interview on NBC News that aired on Thursday.
Asked if the United States was considering working hand-in-hand with Shi'ite-led Iran, Kerry said: "No. We're not sitting around contemplating how we're going to do that or if we're going to do that. That's not on the table," Kerry added.
Kerry, responding to another question about the possibility of U.S. air strikes in Iraq, said that "nothing is off the table" and that "all options" are still available to President Barack Obama, who is weighing how to respond to the rebellion.
Iraqi officials have publicly called for U.S. air support to help quell the insurgency from the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) and its allies. Washington so far has given no indication it will agree to air strikes.
Obama is also facing growing calls from U.S. lawmakers to persuade Iraq's Shi'ite prime minister, Nuri al-Maliki, to step down over what they see as failed leadership and refusal to be inclusive of Sunnis, helping to fuel the insurgency now threatening his country.
"What the United States is doing is about Iraq, it's not about Maliki. Nothing the president decides to do is going to be focused specifically on Prime Minister Maliki. It is focused on the people of Iraq," Kerry also said in the interview, which was taped late Wednes
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19/6/14
US: ’No Plans’ for Military Coordination with Iran over ISIL...
DeleteThe United States said Friday it has "no plans" for any military coordination with Iran in the fight against ISIL terrorists operating in Iraq and Syria.
"We are not going to coordinate military action or share intelligence with Iran and have no plans to do so," State Department deputy spokeswoman Marie Harf said, reacting to reports that Tehran had approved such an arrangement.
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