http://www.politicalaffairs.net/article/articleview/4907/1/242/ After separate meetings with President Bashar Assad of Syria, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei declared Muslim unity and resistance against US-Israeli conspiracies in the Middle East urgent matters for all Muslims in the region to rally around. The Islamic Republic’s years of cooperation with the Untied States in Nicaragua (the Iran-Contra affair), Afghanistan and Iraq notwithstanding, one cannot but wonder if such renewed boldness by Iranian authorities is not actually a direct outcome of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s recent remarks at the Munich conference of 10 February, in which Putin scorned the US policy of domination as a security threat to Russia.
There is no doubt that the George W. Bush administration’s so-called war on terror and belligerent attitude towards the Middle East has, more than ever before, sensitized Russia to issues related to its own security as well as the safety and security of its potential allies and lucrative networks in the region. US post-9/11 policy of regime change in the Middle East, which was advanced by Bush as an attempt to address issues of democratic deficit and extremist tendencies in the region, has not only amounted to the establishment of a more extensive American military presence in Central and Southwest Asia, but also has forced Russia to re-evaluate its overall geostrategic position vis-à-vis the United States.
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