"Wednesday, Maliki held private talks on security with Ali Larijani, head of
Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, followed by a photo-op showing him
hand in hand with President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and a meeting with supreme
leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He also discussed plans for Iran to build a power
station in Baghdad’s Shiite Sadr City district and supplies of 400,000 tons of
kerosene and liquid gas"
I think that a friendship between Iran and Iraq could be the greatest force of stability in the region and could work towards many of the same goals that the Bush administration has worked for. Together they hold a lot of power over the fate of the middle east, and they contain a lot of strength. If the friendship was strong enough, it might give Iran enough security to step back from the nuclear show down that has the west on edge. The last period of stability in the region was during the time when these two powers were in a long cold standoff with each other. A bond of friendship could be the foundation for closer bonds throughout the whole region.
At the end of World War II, who would have guessed that the European Union would be formed the way it has. Perhaps Iran and Iraq could become the core of a similar new alignment of power in the middle east.
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