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Iran snuggles up with Iraqi opposition |
2002-01-06 |
Iran would seem to be expecting Saddam's Iraq to go down. They also seem to expect the US to use the same technique: supporting an indigenous opposition, leading to an interim government. Having sat out the war against the Taliban, not out of ideology but because they didn't think it could be done, they're going to try and get in on the ground floor in Iraq so they can have some influence with the new regime. That's something they don't have, not yet anyway, in Afghanistan. Whatever successor state (or states) comes about, they can be worked, because Iran will have been there from the first. They may even start putting some significant money into the project, if it looks feasible. |
Posted by:Fred Pruitt |