ANKARA (Reuters) - Iran said on Monday it had accepted "without preconditions" an invitation by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to attend talks due to start on Wednesday in Switzerland aimed at ending Syria's civil war, the student news agency ISNA reported.
But in comments that may complicate Iran's participation, two Iranian sources said Tehran's attendance at the talks, known as 'Geneva 2', did not mean it backed a plan for Syria's political transition agreed at a Geneva conference in June 2012.
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