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Monday 24 November 2008 13:00 - 14:00Has Iran Won the Iraq War?
Monday 21 April 2008 17:30 to 18:30
Location
Chatham House, London
Participants
Juan Cole, Professor of History, University of Michigan
Chair: Peter David, Foreign Editor, The Economist
Type: Members event
President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran visited Baghdad in March 2008 at the personal invitation of Iraqi President and prominent Kurdish leader Jalal Talabani. The speaker will argue that the visit underscored the warm relations between Iran and the Baghdad government - a coalition of hard-line religious Shiite parties and the Kurdistan Alliance. With Iran investing in an airport near the shrine city of Najaf, the massive annual flow of Iranian pilgrims to Shiite holy places and Iranian foreign aid and cooperation in supplying needs such as electricity, the question arises whether Iran is the actual victor in the Iraq War. The speaker will suggest that no other neighbour, whether Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Jordan or Syria, is as happy with the outcome of the war or as likely to benefit from it geo-strategically.
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