But Iran's deputy foreign minister for legal and international affairs, Abbas Araghchi, used the occasion to accuse the international forces in Iraq of playing a double game.
"It will help resolve the problem of violence if they set a timetable for withdrawal of their troops from Iraq,"
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/03/11/wirq11.xml&DCMP=EMC-new_11032007
I'd guess that that statement was for domestic consumption.