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16 Oct 07
Peter CruickshankTreacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States by Trita Parsi
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15 Oct 07
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05 Oct 07
inigo ugarteReseña de "Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States". NYRB
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02 Oct 07
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Of all the unintended consequences of the Iraq war, Iran's strategic victory is the most far-reaching. In establishing the border between the Ottoman Empire and the Persian Empire in 1639, the Treaty of Qasr-i-Shirin demarcated the boundary between Sunni-ruled lands and Shiite-ruled lands. For eight years of brutal warfare in the 1980s, Iran tried to breach that line but could not. (At the time, the Reagan administration supported Saddam Hussein precisely because it feared the strategic consequences of an Iraq dominated by Iran's allies.) The 2003 US invasion of Iraq accomplished what Khomeini's army could not. Today, the Shiite-controlled lands extend to the borders of Kuwait and Saudi Arabia.
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24 Sep 07
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