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Rare US-Iran meeting is disclosed

by Jarrett Martineau | February 15, 2008 at 06:57 pm

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Despite the lack of diplomatic relations between the US and Iran, they have still met to discuss the international hot button issue of financing terror groups.

Hmm. Couldn't both nations be held accountable for that kind of 'financing'? Perhaps they were just meeting to share trade secrets.

The US treasury department has revealed that one of its officials took part in discussions with Iranian officials in Paris last month.

Such meetings are rare as the two countries have no diplomatic relations.

The US says the talks were initiated by an international body set up to monitor the financing of terror groups.

Reports say the session was called at Tehran's request, to respond to claims that it is complicit in money laundering and financing terrorists.

The US treasury department says the talks were multilateral and that there were no one-on-one talks with Iran.

The Bush administration is currently attempting to step up international pressure on Iran to halt nuclear activities that could lead to the development of nuclear weapons.