Thursday, July 23, 2009

Iran and Russia, scorpions in a bottle

NEW GREAT GAME REVISITED, Part 1

By Pepe Escobar
Asia Times

(This is the first article in a two-part report.)

"A nuclear Iran would inevitably turbo-charge a new, emerging multipolar world - one that does not rely on the United States to subjugate the bulk of oil in the Arab Middle East. But the Iranian nuclear dossier cannot be solved without Russia, leaving Moscow with a key moderating role between Iran and the West. No matter how nasty the overtones, the Iran-Russia dynamic is the pacemaker for the heart of the New Great Game......"

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