"Turkey in the Balance?
Inside the Improbable Turkey-Iran Partnership
By Alexander Sherbany
For much of the last 50 years, through the Cold War, Iranian Revolution, and Iran-Iraq War, Turkey and Iran have weathered ideological tension and mutual mistrust to maintain a peaceful coexistence. Over the objections of the United States, in the past decade Turkey has moved to solidify a pragmatic economic and geopolitical partnership with oil-rich Iran."
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