Iraq, Iran hold historic talks

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http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=143&sid=6255892&cKey=1132588230000

TEHRAN (Reuters) - Jalal Talabani, the first Iraqi president to visit Iran for nearly four decades, received assurances on Monday that Tehran supported its neighbour's transition to democracy.

Shi'ite Muslim Iran has repeatedly been accused of meddling in post-war Iraq, with Western and Iraqi officials charging Iran with allowing weapons and insurgents to cross its borders.

But Iran's President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said such accusations were unfounded and voiced by those who did not want better ties between Baghdad and Tehran, who fought each other to a standstill in a 1980-1988 war. snip

"A popular, independent and developed Iraq will be the best friend of the Iranian nation," Ahmadinejad said.

"We totally support the political process that the Iraqi nation is undergoing that will ... guarantee its territorial integrity, independence and progress," he added

[Freedom_from_Chains]

1. Now of course they will have to become an Islamic state

but we can talk about that once the infidel invaders have been ousted.

[TomClash]

2. Of course Iraq is Iran's

shia pet.

[Nimrod2005]

3. I am sure Buhs is somewhere saying: " bring'em on."