US envoy: Don’t expect warmer relations with Iran

AP: A top American diplomat is not getting his hopes up for a breakthrough with Iran during an upcoming international conference.

The Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — A top American diplomat is not getting his hopes up for a breakthrough with Iran during an upcoming international conference.

Richard Holbrooke is the U.S. envoy to Afghanistan and Pakistan. He says that 30 years of bitter disagreements between the U.S. and Iran won't be erased in one meeting.

Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Iranian diplomats will be together at The Hague, in the Netherlands, for a U.N.-sponsored meeting Tuesday on Afghanistan.

The official U.S. position is that Iran is a neighbor of Afghanistan and shares U.S. concerns for its future. Yet the U.S. and Iran are divided by stark differences over Iran's nuclear ambitions and many other issues.

Holbrooke appeared Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union."