Arabs fear U.S-Iran talks cut them out

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Source: AP

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Arab officials and commentators said Tuesday they feared the budding dialogue between Washington and Iran could cut them out of the debate over the future of Iraq, one of the region's most important countries.

Many of the Iraq Sunni Muslim-dominated neighbors worry that the U.S.-Iran dialogue could boost Iran's already enormous influence over Iraq's majority Shiites.

"Iraq should not be stripped out of its Arab identity, especially as Iraq is one of the outstanding members and founder of the Arab League," Ahmed ben Heli, the Arab League's undersecretary general told reporters in Cairo Tuesday.

Suspicion over American and Iranian intentions in Iraq was running high in Arab capitals, a day after U.S. and Iranian ambassadors discussed the seemingly unstoppable sectarian violence that has engulfed Iraq four years after the U.S.-led invasion.



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1. Ahhhh, don't they trust us?

I don't trust us either.

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2. The price of...

Dancing with the Devil....