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U.S.-Iranian Policy in Iraq: Distrust Vs Interests

... Iranians cannot support the U.S. policy aimed at maintaining Kurdistan’s independence (the President of Iraq’s Kurdistan Region Massoud Barzani has declared that he will hold a referendum on secession from Iraq within a few months). First, Iraqi Kurdistan is likely to become a point of attraction for the Iranian Kurds and thereby strengthen separatist sentiments among them. Second, Tehran does not want to see a new state emerge near its borders that strengthens the positions of its current regional adversary Israel, its future regional rival Turkey, and ...

25.08.2014

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The Oxymoronic Déjà Vu of Humanitarian Bombing in Syria

... positions of his friends, and alienate all neutrals while he was gradually winning the war, and at a time when UN chemical inspectors were in Damascus? The sceptic observer cannot help but remember the false intelligence on which the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was founded; Saddam Hussein did not in fact possess weapons of mass destruction. The parallel is inescapable. In May, Carla Del Ponte, leading member of the United Nations Independent International Commission of Inquiry on Syria, asserted that there ...

07.09.2013

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In your opinion, what are the US long-term goals for Russia?

U.S. wants to establish partnership relations with Russia on condition that it meets the U.S. requirements	33 (31%)
U.S. wants to deter Russia’s military and political activity	30 (28%)
U.S. wants to dissolve Russia	24 (22%)
U.S. wants to establish alliance relations with Russia under the US conditions to rival China	21 (19%)