A year after the election of reformist Hassan Rouahni, Tehran and Washington have entered a de facto entente. While the ongoing nuclear negotiations are yet to produce a permanent deal, both sides have stepped up their assistance to the Shia-dominated government in Baghdad and the Kurdish regional government in Iraq. Just like how Washington and Tehran cooperated against the Taliban and Saddam regimes in early 2000s, the two powers are once again united against an extremist Sunni force, the Islamic State, which has declared war on all religious minorities in the Middle East — and vowed to take its fight …read more
Source: The Huffington Post
