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Article: Iran calls for national reconciliation in Iraq
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- May 29, 2008
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Iran calls for national reconciliation in Iraq
STOCKHOLM, May 29 (Xinhua) -- Iran on Thursday called for
national reconciliation in Iraq, in an obvious attempt to ward off
Western concerns over its influence in Iraqi politics.
Both Iraq and Iran are Shi'ite Muslim countries although the
minority Sunni group had governed Iraq during former president
Saddam Hussein's rule.
"My country has always declared that the prosperity of Iraq lies
in the peaceful cohabitation of all Iraqi groups," Iranian Foreign
Minister Manouchehr Mottaki told an international conference on Iraq
here.
"We do believe that the key to the preservation of the true
identity of Iraq and the survival of this country as an ...