LOS ANGELES TIMES
BY PAUL RICHTER
Despite their repeated insistence that they are not cooperating in Iraq, U.S. and Iranian officials again discussed the militant group Islamic State during a high-level meeting last week, the State Department disclosed Tuesday.
Marie Harf, a State Department spokeswoman, said Deputy Secretary of State William J. Burns discussed the issue with Iranian officials "briefly, on the margins" of a meeting that was held last Thursday and Friday in Geneva to discuss the international negotiations over Iran's nuclear program.
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