Iran has accepted an invitation to a conference on Afghanistan next week at The Hague, Netherlands, that also will be attended by the U.S.

U.S. State Department officials have said no substantive meetings are planned between the U.S. and the Iranians.

But Clinton reaffirmed U.S. hopes that Iran will help in stabilizing Afghanistan.

“Iran borders Afghanistan,” she said. “It has a role to play in the region and we hope it will be a constructive role.”

Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, rejected Obama’s outreach, saying Tehran was still waiting to see concrete changes in U.S. policy. Obama spoke out to Iran on the occasion of Nowruz, the Persian new year, and expressed hopes for an improvement in nearly 30 years of strained relations. Clinton said those efforts will continue.

“We are doing what President Obama said we would do. We are reaching out to the Iranian leadership, but equally importantly, to the Iranian people. That was certainly the spirit in which the president extended new year’s greetings,” she said.

“We have a long-held view that there are going to be difficult obstacles to engaging in the short run with the Iranians, but we are going to continue to reach out,” she said.

From Fox News

Another bold move by Iran to test the new Obama administration and how they will handle the game of chicken that Iran is always play with U.S.

“Details of the previously-unreported shoot-down, which occurred last month, are still sketchy. But we do know that American commanders have long accused Tehran of supplying weapons and training to all sorts of Iraqi militant groups. Shi’ite militias fired Iranian rockets at U.S. troops in Iraq, according to the American military; Sunni militias allegedly used Iranian armor-piercing bombs to reduce U.S. vehicles to ribbons.”

Iran is getting their own hands on a fleet of unmanned drones to counter the success the U.S. has been have since their introduction in the Iraqi war zone.

“Since then, Tehran claims to have radically upgraded its unmanned fleet. In 2007, Iran said it built a drone with a range of 420 miles. In February, Iran’s deputy defense minister claimed its latest UAV could now fly as far as 600 miles — a huge improvement over crude drones like the Misrad, if true. Iran often exaggerates what its weapons can do. But, if this drone really can stay in the air for for that long, the Washington Times notes, “it could soar over every U.S. military installation, diplomatic mission or country of interest in the Middle East.” Including those in Iraq.”

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