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Afghanistan, Iran, and US-Russian Conflict

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

M K Bhadrakumar
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The measure of success of president-elect Barack Obama's new “Afghan strategy” will be directly proportional to his ability to delink the war from its geopolitical agenda inherited from the George W. Bush administration.

It is obvious that Russia and Iran's cooperation is no less critical for the success of the war than what the US is painstakingly extracting from the Pakistani generals. Arguably, Obama will even be in a stronger negotiating position vis-a-vis the tough generals in Rawalpindi if only he has Moscow and Tehran on board his Afghan strategy.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 6 , Issue 12 , December 2008 , e19
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