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Article: Iran and the United States: the emerging security paradigm in the Middle East.
- Article from:
- Parameters
- Article date:
- June 22, 2007
- Author:
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When this decade began Iran was flanked by two sworn enemies: the Taliban regime in Afghanistan on the east and Saddam Hussein in Iraq on the west. The Taliban received substantial support from Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, and Iraq was believed to have weapons of mass destruction. The 1980-88 Iran-Iraq war resulted in more than a million casualties, ended with no peace treaty, and left major territorial disputes unresolved. On the other side, a war between Iran and the Taliban was averted in 1998 following the Taliban's killing of eight Iranian diplomats and a journalist.
Since then, the regional security landscape and Tehran's security outlook have dramatically ...