America, Turkey and Iran Could Be Headed Toward a Showdown
The three-way competition between Ankara, Tehran and Washington reveal the difficulties of combating the Islamic State.
Dr. Raymond Tanter (@AmericanCHR) served as a senior member on the National Security Council staff in the Reagan-Bush administration and is now Professor Emeritus at University of Michigan. Edward Stafford (@egstafford) is a retired Foreign Service officer; he served in Political-Military Affairs at the State Department, as a diplomat with the U.S. Embassy in Turkey, and taught at the Inter-American Defense College.
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