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se of what was presented as an incident. See on this subject, for example, Douglas !eh', 'Iran Holds Taliban Responsible for nine Diplomats' Death', New York Times, II September I 998,http://www.nytimcs.com/1998/09/1 liworld/iran-holds-taliban-responsible- for-9-diplomats-deaths.html?pagewanted—all&src—pm. Acces

rchive&sid=aNalqaODpvrU. A ensed 15 May 2012. 61 Thom Shanker, Eric Schmitt. Alissa J. Rubin, 'US Sees Iran in Bids to Stir Unrest in Afghanistan'. New York Times, 4 April 2012, Mtp://www.nytimes.cont/2012/04/05/worIcVasiaiirans-efforts-to-stir-afghan-violcnce- provoke-concem.html?_r=1. Accessed 24 May 2012. 1

ressure on the Northern Alliance during the Bonn Conference. They made sure that their Tajik, Uzbek and Hazara allies would accept the leadership of Hamid Karzai, with whom they did not want to share power at first. On this issue again, the US and Iran were having the same vision: a more centralised Afghanist

supremacists. In fact, as Afghan trade is now very dependent on Iran, to close the Iran- Afghanistan border would be enough to put great pressure on Karzai68. By talking to the neo- Taliban, the Iranians are doing no more than what the Americans, the Pakistanis, and even the Russians69 are already doing,

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osing a new Pope and a third Carnival Cruise Ship fiasco , almost unnoticed was the inflammatory speech last Tuesday by the President of Afghanistan Harmid Karzai, who he went over the top equating the U.S. with the Taliban as forces working to undermine the government, particularly given the tremendous resou

uating the U.S. with the Taliban as forces working to undermine the government, particularly given the tremendous resources the U.S. has provided to Karzai's government over the past decade -- and that he owes his position, as well as any progress that has been made to date -- to the U.S. As the U.S. p

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cared. He appointed Holbrooke as his point man only to ensure that he "never received the authority to do diplomacy." Obama's message to President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan was: "Ignore my special representative." The White House campaign against Holbrooke was "a theater of the absurd," Nasr writes. "Ho

he White House campaign against Holbrooke was "a theater of the absurd," Nasr writes. "Holbrooke was not included in Obama's videoconferences with Karzai and was cut out of the presidential retinue when Obama went to Afghanistan." The White House seemed "more interested in bringing Holbrooke down tha

urkish diplomats, meanwhile, have taken on a more active role in the region. Some Turkish initiatives have been successful (the effort to free four New York Times journalists captured in Libya); some were said to have almost succeeded (the 2008 talks between Syria and Israel); some have been dismissed by alli

ecretary Leon Panetta will remain low-key during this round. He doesn't want to alienate his new Pentagon home or undercut Obama. As for President Karzai of Afghanistan, his course is certain: Scream against large- scale withdrawals. One final piece of the July formula that remains to be developed is