Iran shrugs off secret US meeting

[maddezmom]

Source: AP

TEHRAN, Iran - Iran's economy minister on Saturday downplayed a secret meeting last month between U.S. and Iranian banking officials, calling it "an exchange of views" over the Islamic nation's new money laundering law.

The minister, Davoud Danesh Jafari, said the rare encounter was not special, included no senior officials and amounted to the U.S. interested in talking about the new Iranian law.

"There was an exchange of views," Jafari told reporters in Tehran.

Andrew DeSouza, a U.S. Treasury Department spokesman, said the Jan. 24 meeting between the Financial Action Task Force, or FATF, and the Iranian delegation was to discuss "Iran's noncompliance with international standards to combat money laundering and terrorist financing."



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[trthnd4jstc]

1. The Bush Administration Shrugged it off also. Go Obama!

At least Sen. Obama says that we should be in dialogue with our enemies. Further, I was happy to know that even though the Monkey Boy liar said he would refuse to dialogue, at leat we were.

[freedomnorth]

2. Did oil bourse come up in talks? nt.

[ohio2007]

3. Of course he down played it....wouldn't want to be thrown in prison on spy charges

now would he ;)