Warsaw says Iran not invited to US-Polish Mideast summit

Poland’s foreign minister says Iran has not been invited to an international conference on the Middle East next month in Warsaw, while Russia has declined the invitation.

Iran has protested the February 13-14 conference, calling it a hostile move. Poland and the US are co-hosting the event, which has also met with a lukewarm reaction from the European Union, whose foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini will not be attending.

Minister Jacek Czaputowicz says in remarks published this afternoon that Iran’s presence would have hampered talks because the language that Tehran uses is “hard to accept.”

He says Russia has advised that it will not participate, either.

Czaputowicz insists the conference could help solve the impasse over the international agreement on curbing Iran’s nuclear ambitions.

— AP