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Iraqi president arrives in Tehran to meet with Iran's Ahmadinejad
TEHRAN, Iran (CNN) -- The search for solutions in Iraq moved to the international stage Monday as Iraqi President Jalal Talabani traveled to Iran and President Bush began a trip that will take him to the Middle East to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki.

Talabani's meeting with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, originally scheduled for Saturday, was delayed when Iraq closed Baghdad International Airport and imposed a curfew after more than 200 people were killed Thursday in the capital's Shiite slum of Sadr City.

Police called it the single worst attack since the war began.

Meanwhile, Bush is scheduled to talk with al-Maliki in Amman, Jordan following a two-day NATO summit in Latvia, which wraps up on Wednesday.

Both al-Maliki and Bush face political pressure at home over the meeting and the future of Iraq.

On Friday, anti-U.S. Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's bloc threatened to withdraw support for al-Maliki if the meeting with Bush goes ahead as planned. (Posted 1:07 p.m.)
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