Saturday's talks produced spare formal statements in public but were charged with significance, touching on competition between Washington and Tehran for influence in Iraq and on Chalabi's volatile personal ties to the Bush administration.
Ahmadinejad, quoted on Sunday by the official IRNA news agency, blamed the U.S. occupation for violence in Iraq and said he expected the vote on Dec. 15 to produce a strong government.
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