Fionn typical BBC reporting, that's the same BBC that cannot write the word "Taleban" without prefixing it with "resurgent", the same BBC who have predicted massive spring and summer Taleban offensives that will drive ISAF out of the country every year since 2006 - odd that none of them have ever materialised.

If you actually read the item they are talking about talks. Read nothing in it at all about Iran or Russia being asked to dig anyone out of a hole. Anything like that would be have to be done through the United Nations. They after all were the ones who put NATO into Afghanistan.

Now what has the "Beeb" got to tell us about how terrible things are in Iraq??