Iran's foreign minister says Tehran sees no point in talking to Washington on Iraq's security when US planes pound Iraqi cities everyday.

“Iraq has been in a special situation in the last month and the multinational forces in the country have not made things easier,” Iran's Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said on Sunday.

Mottaki also expressed Iran's concern for the grim situation of Iraqi civilians, adding that Tehran will be willing to talk to Washington if it modifies its policies regarding Iraq.

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"There will be no talks with the US for the time being but let's see on what basis the US anchors its policies in the future," he said.

Sporadic US military operations continue in Baghdad's Sadr City despite last week's ceasefire agreement between the Iraqi government and Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army.

Since March 25, US air and ground raids on civilians in Baghdad's Sadr City have left thousands of Iraqis, most of them women and children, dead and wounded.