"...Many details about the meeting, expected to be held March 31, are still being worked out, but U.S. officials said the conclave is intended to help implement a U.S. strategic review for Afghanistan, which will be completed in mid-March, and to set the stage for a NATO summit to be held in early April...
Bringing Iran to the table would mark a return to the cooperation between the United States and Iran that immediately followed the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when Iranian officials were instrumental in helping set up a new government in Kabul. But initially promising consultations between Tehran and Washington ended after then-President George W. Bush labeled Iran as part of an "axis of evil" in the 2002 State of the Union address.
"Iran borders Afghanistan," Clinton told reporters traveling with her she flew to Belgium on Wednesday following meetings in the Middle East. "In the early days of the military efforts by the United States and our allies to go after the Taliban and al-Qaida, Iran was consulting with our ambassador on a daily basis. Where it is appropriate and useful for the United States and others to see whether Iran can be constructive, that will be considered."
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