Talking with Iran can stop Iraq sliding into regional war, NIAC
Regional-Iran-USA, Politics, 1/6/2007

The National Iranian American Council (NAIC) warned Wednesday that Washington's lack of communication with Iran was a "key contributing factor" and risks further instability in the region.

"Iraq is not on the verge of a civil war; it is already in a civil war and it may now slide into a regional war unless Washington grants all regional states a stake in the process of stabilizing the country," NAIC president Trita Parsi said.

"Talking to Iran may not be the silver bullet that stabilizes Iraq in and of itself, but it is an absolute necessity in order to prevent the chaos in Iraq from deteriorating," Parsi warned in a letter to Financial Times.
He said that while the US is "currently trapped in the crossfire of a civil war, it will be infinitely worse to be caught in the middle of the regional war."

"Washington will have no option but to cut and run and see its failure in Iraq translate into an irreversible decline in US global power," the lecturer from John Hopkins University said.

He said that "only by heeding the Iraq Study Group's
recommendation of setting up an Iraq International Support Group comprising Iraq and all its neighbors, including Iran, can such a war be avoided."

"At the end of the day, the Bush administration must recognize that the price of failing in Iraq is far greater than the price of talking to Iran," Parsi said.

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