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    PanARMENIAN.Net

    Zalmay Khalilzad: Iran should be thankful to U.S.
    02.02.2008 13:40 GMT+04:00

    /PanARMENIAN.Net/ Iran is stronger today because of
    the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, U.S.
    representative to UN Zalmay Khalilzad said.

    The 2003 invasion of Iraq removed a key rival of
    Shiite Iran with the ouster of Saddam Hussein's
    Sunni-dominated government. Iran has friendly ties
    with the Shiites now in power in Iraq.

    "It's helped Iran's relative position in the region,
    because Iraq was a rival of Iran ... and the balance
    there has disintegrated or weakened," Amb. Khalilzad
    said Friday while answering questions from students at
    Columbia University's School of International and
    Public Affairs. "And so one of the objectives of Iran,
    in my view, is to discourage a reemergence of Iraq as
    a balancer. And Afghanistan, too, the change was
    helpful to Iran," he said, the AP reports.
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