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US Iran To Have Direct Group Talks Over Nuke Program
MATTHEW LEE |

WASHINGTON ˜ The Obama administration said Wednesday it will participate
directly in group talks with Iran over its suspect nuclear program, marking
another shift from former President George W. Bush's policy.

State Department spokesman Robert Wood said the United States would be at
the table "from now on" when senior diplomats from the five permanent
members of the U.N. Security Council and Germany meet with Iranian
officials to discuss the nuclear issue. The Bush administration had
generally shunned such meetings, although it attended one last year.

Wood said the decision was conveyed to representatives of Britain, China,
France, Germany, Russia by the third-ranking U.S. diplomat William Burns at
a Wednesday meeting in London. That group, known as the "P5+1," announced
earlier that it would invite Iran to attend a new session aimed at breaking
a deadlock in the talks.

"The U.S. remains committed to the P5+1 process; what is different is that
the U.S. will join P5+1 discussions with Iran from now on," Wood told
reporters, adding that Washington was hopeful Iran would attend.
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