The Jerusalem Post published an article headlined "Iraq's Maliki says Iran wants to have nuke talks with US."
"Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki of Iraq told the Obama administration this month that Iran wanted direct talks with the US on its nuclear program, according to a report in The New York Times on Friday that cited Western officials. Maliki said that Iraq was prepared to facilitate the negotiations," the article begins.
"Maliki sent the message to the US ambassador in Baghdad earlier this month and he suggested that he was relaying a message from Iranian officials who said that Iran's incoming President Hassan Rouhani, "would be serious about any discussions with the US," according to the report."
"The report quoted US State Department spokesman Patrick Ventrell who said that the US was "open to direct talks with Iran in order to resolve the international community's concerns about Iran's nuclear program," the article reads.
