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...broad interests in Afghanistan are the same as Washington's. The Islamic Republic doesn't want to see a return to chaos on its eastern flank, which would probably lead to a massive refugee influx. As a Shi'ite state, it would see the return to power of militant Sunni hard-liners as a setback. And Iran, which faces a drug-addiction problem of alarming proportions, shares the U.S. desire to curtail Afghanistan's opium trade. If anything, "Tehran stands to lose much more than Washington if Afghanistan reverts back to an al-Qaeda-infested, Taliban-controlled narco state," says...
...Administration's newest signal is received may depend on the listener. The actions could hearten some Iranian dissidents, who urged President Obama to take sides during surprise counter-demonstrations to their governments celebration of the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy seizure. It could also be welcomed by some Sunni Muslim nations at odds with the Shi'ite regime in Iran...
...could be substantially shaped by the composition of the next government. The Kurds have played a kingmaking role in the democratic process since Saddam's ouster, but their backing for the Shi'ite-dominated al-Maliki government in 2005 did little to cement Kurdish territorial claims. But now that Sunni Arabs no longer boycott elections, Kurdish parliamentary influence will be diminished. Indeed, stiffening resistance to Kurdish political demands could be a key point of consensus in any Sunni-Shi'ite political alliance that emerges after the elections - and that could make Kirkuk's relative stability a thing of the past...
...then hold a referendum to determine whether they should continue to be administered by Baghdad or be ruled by the Kurdistan Regional Government. It may have been constitutionally mandated, but the idea of forcibly resettling Kirkuk's Arab population was unthinkable while Iraq was in the grip of a Sunni-Arab insurgency and a Shi'ite-Sunni civil war, and that became the excuse for the al-Maliki government to allow several referendum deadlines to pass...
...Sunni rebel group claimed responsibility for the meticulously planned twin suicide bombings on Oct. 25 that killed more than 155 people, including 30 children, just outside Baghdad's Green Zone. The attack--Iraq's deadliest since April 2007--circumvented the stringent security measures in the city's heavily protected core and heightened fears that the country's fledgling government may not be ready for January's parliamentary elections and the withdrawal of U.S. troops next year. The bombings came two months after blasts near the Foreign and Finance ministries left 100 people dead...