http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_3979.shtmlThe Bush administration's new openness to having Secretary of State
Colin Powell attend a conference along with an envoy from Iran next
month is spreading hope among European and Arab officials that such a
meeting may reduce tensions in the region.
State Department officials insist that Powell's newly expressed
willingness to be in the same room with an Iranian representative at a
conference on the future of Iraq does not portend a softening in other
U.S. grievances, including the demand that Iran abandon its suspected
nuclear weapons program.
"We don't see this as an opening for a new dialogue," said a senior
State Department official. "It just shows we will talk to Iran on
certain issues like Iraq when it is in our interest to do so."