President of Iran to pay landmark two-day visit to Baghdad

From NEWS.scotsman.com

• Published Date: 15 February 2008
• Source: The Scotsman
• Location: Scotland
• Related Topics: Iran

MAHMOUD Ahmadinejad, the Iranian president, is to make a landmark visit to Baghdad for talks with Nuri al-Maliki, the Iraqi prime minister, and other officials.

The visit, on 2 and 3 March, will be the first by the president of the Islamic Republic, which is at loggerheads with many in the West over the causes of violence in Iraq as well as Tehran's nuclear programme.

Washington and London accuse Iran of helping Shiite militias in Iraq, by giving them training and weapons, including armour-piercing bombs known as explosively formed penetrators that have killed US and British troops. Tehran denies the charges.

Iran, a predominantly Shiite Muslim country, and Iraq fought an eight-year war in the 1980s in which hundreds of thousands were killed. Ties have improved since Saddam Hussein, a Sunni Arab, was ousted in the US-led invasion of Iraq in 2003 and a Shiite Muslim-led government came to power in Baghdad. Both Mr Maliki and Jalal Talabani, the Iraqi president, have visited Iran. {Click the link above to read the entire story.)

Wouldn't it be too bad if the insurgent radical Islamic fascists sent a homicide bomber to greet Ahmadinejad? Sure would resolve some issues for the world.

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