Iran is «in a position to help» in Iraq, Iranian Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said, though he blamed the United States for setting off an endless cycle of violence in the neighboring country. Mottaki referred to the bipartisan Iraq Study Group report recommending that the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush speak to Iran and Syria to enlist their help in easing the Iraq crisis. «We are in the position to help. Maybe you will ask how. I don't know how, they have to say. But we are in the position to finalize this crisis in Iraq,» he told reporters late Wednesday shortly after the report was released. Speaking later on Dutch current affairs program «Netwerk,» Mottaki said Tehran would look at the study group's report but that Washington needs to change its Iraq policies before dialogue, according to a report of the Associated Press.
