"The West has 'lost' Iran and Turkey, with an assist from Russia and to China's benefit
By Dr. Assad Homayoun, Gregory R. Copley, and Yossef Bodansky, Global Information System
Iran is already a nuclear weapons power, with externally-acquired nuclear weapons.
Iran's present geo-strategic position is also transformed in importance by the end of the Great Game (or at least the component of it which began with the Russo-Persian Treaty of 1813, transformed with the Anglo-Russian Convention of 1907, and arguably concluded with the new Russo-Iranian understandings of the past few years)."
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