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Ambassador Crocker Says Ready
to Talk to Iran Again
JULIA HOPPOCK
ABC
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
In an exclusive interview with "Nightline's" Terry
Moran, the American Ambassador to Iraq said he was concerned about
Iranian influence in Iraq.
When asked if Americans were in a "proxy war" with
Iran, Ryan Crocker said, "It may be that the Iranians see
it in that light, we certainly do not."
But he also added that "we don't want to have just what
you describe as a proxy war with Iran inside Iraq, and that is
why we are willing to sit down with Iran face to face for talks
on Iraqi security at the invitation of the Iraqi government. We've
had three rounds of those talks and we've told them we are ready
to again."
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Both Ambassador Crocker and the top commander in Iraq, General
David Petraeus stressed the importance of Arab involvement in
Iraq and said American troops might be in Iraq for the long haul.
"We will need to be there for a while," Petraeus said,
adding that "over time, the role of our forces and our presence
will change."
Crocker described American involvement in Iraq as a "multi-year
project."
In Senate testimony today, General Petraeus recommended suspending
troop withdrawals after July, telling members of Congress that
while progress in Iraq is "real," it was also "fragile
and reversible."
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