War encourages U.S.-Iran contacts
"WASHINGTON, March 26 (UPI) -- U.S. and Iranian officials held a key meeting the weekend before Operation Iraqi Freedom began to discuss co-operation between the two old adversaries in the event of a war.........All the while direct contacts between British diplomats and the Iranians have worked out many of the logistical aspects of the new war, according to State Department officials.
The United States broke formal diplomatic ties with Iran more than 20 years ago soon after the 1979 Islamic revolution when Iranian students captured the American Embassy in Tehran and took hostage the entire staff........"