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Article: IRAQ - No US-Iran Nuke Talks - War Hints.
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- APS Diplomat Redrawing the Islamic Map
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- May 1, 2006
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The FT on April 24 quoted Philip Zelikow, counsellor at the US State Department, as rebuffing European calls for Washington to negotiate directly with Tehran over Iran's nuclear programme. He said the US commitment to democratisation of the Middle East was undimmed, despite the recent victory of Hamas, the militant Islamist group, in the Jan. 25 Palestinian legislative elections.
Zelikow said: "The US position has been that at this time we don't see value in having direct talks with the Iranians about, say, the nuclear issue", rejecting calls for such negotiations from German Foreign Minister Frank-Walter Steinmeier and other senior European diplomats.
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