U.S. And Iran Face Common Enemies In Mideast Strife -- New York Times
TEHRAN — Even as the United States and Iran pursue negotiations on Tehran’s nuclear program, they find themselves on the same side of a range of regional issues surrounding an insurgency raging across the Middle East.
While the two governments quietly continue to pursue their often conflicting interests, they are being drawn together by their mutual opposition to an international movement of young Sunni fighters, who with their pickup trucks and Kalashnikovs are raising the black flag of Al Qaeda along sectarian fault lines in Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Afghanistan and Yemen.
The United States, reluctant to intervene in bloody, inconclusive conflicts, is seeing its regional influence decline, while Iraq, which cost the Americans $1 trillion and more than 4,000 lives, is growing increasingly unstable.
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Update #1: US and Iran find common enemy in jihadist group -- France 24
Update #2: US-Iran detente will be biggest geopolitical story of 2014 -- Stephen Kinzer, Al Jazeera
My Comment: The enemy of my enemy is my friend .... I guess this is the rule that both the U.S. and Iran are now following.
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