NEW YORK — Iran is stronger today because of the U.S.-led invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq, the American ambassador to the United Nations said Friday.
The 2003 invasion of Iraq removed a key rival of Shiite Iran with the ouster of Saddam Hussein’s Sunni-dominated government. Iran has friendly ties with the Shiites now in power in Iraq.
“It’s helped Iran’s relative position in the region, because Iraq was a rival of Iran … and the balance there has disintegrated or weakened,” Zalmay Khalilzad said at Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.
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