Iran & US to negotiate.

If the news is reliable, the US has requested to negotiate with Iran on issues relating to Iraq and the Iranians have agreed to this request. It is good news for two reasons:
- The situation in Iraq is becoming a little too serious and the sooner a solution is found the better.
- Let us hope that this will not be the only issue that the two sides would start negotiating about. I hope that this experiment would lead to some confidence building on both sides and, they would start to negotiate on other issues of mutual concern too. To me as an Iranian, it looks silly that Iran does not have any diplomatic relationship with the US. At the same time, I think it is silly too that the US policy makers seem to think that they could have peace in the Middle East without effective participation of the Islamic Republic of Iran. The sooner both sides realise this simple fact and take a more pragmatic view of life, the better for both nations and for the rest of the Middle East.