Iran to consider US invite to Afghan meeting

Iran said today it would consider a US invitation to take part in a meeting on Afghanistan, declaring Tehran was ready to offer…

Iran said today it would consider a US invitation to take part in a meeting on Afghanistan, declaring Tehran was ready to offer any help to its eastern neighbour.

"If America and European countries and others need to use Iran, they should give us (the invitation). We will review it with the approach that we are ready to offer any help to Afghanistan," Iranian government spokesman Gholamhossein Elham told a news conference.

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