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<H3>Iraqi president arrives in Tehran to meet with Iran's Ahmadinejad</H3>
<P>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.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Police called it the single worst attack since the war began.</P>
<P>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.</P>
<P>Both al-Maliki and Bush face political pressure at home over the meeting and
the future of Iraq.</P>
<P>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.
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