Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki said Thursday he is willing to go to Iran to convince its leaders to attend an upcoming key regional summit aimed at stabilizing Iraq. Al-Maliki told The Associated Press during a flight home from Oman that Iran's presence at next week's conference, set for an Egyptian resort, is important and «we will work on finding meetings between Iran and America» during the session. On Wednesday, Iraq's Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari visited Tehran to try to convince the Iranians to attend. He met his Iranian counterpart Manouchehr Mottaki, who said later that Iran has still not decided whether to attend the May 3-4 meeting at Sharm el-Sheikh.
