The possibility of a meeting between the foreign ministers of the United States and Iran later this week is already taking attention away from the reason they will both be in Egypt – to discuss a rescue plan for Iraq. The media is awash with analyses of whether Condoleezza Rice and Manouchehr Mottaki will hold bilateral talks and what those discussions will contain. Rice and Mottaki will join Middle Eastern leaders at Sharm A-Sheikh for two days during which they will try to figure out how to end the violence. Iran’s President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said he was dispatching Mottaki “to support the Iraqi popular government and contribute to promotion of stability and security in the country.” For her part, Rice called on the Iranians to stop their support for non-governmental armed forces in Iraq.