U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met his Iranian counterpart Javad Zarif on Sunday for talks on Iran’s nuclear program and the threat posed by Sunni extremist group Islamic State, a senior State Department official said. The discussions on Syria come as Washington and Tehran have both insisted they won’t cooperate militarily in the fight against Islamic State in Iraq or Syria. The U.S. is building an international coalition to fight Islamic State but so far has excluded Iran from that group, although the two countries have discussed events in Iraq a number of times in recent weeks. Mr. Zarif has slammed the U.S.-led group as “the coalition of the repenters,” saying many of the countries now pledging to fight the Sunni extremists have been supplying or assisting them over the past few years. A State Department official said Mr. Kerry and Mr. Zarif met for over an […]