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Iran, Iraq and Kurdistan Region in focus on final day of MERI Forum

Iran-US relations, Iraq’s future and challenges facing the Kurdistan Region were in focus on the closing day of the annual MERI Forum 2015, hosted by the prestigious Erbil-based Middle East Research Institute. Iranian and US experts sparred in the opening debate of the day, titled “The Iran nuclear deal and its impact on regional dynamics.” Alireza […]

Rudaw reports :

Iran-US relations, Iraq’s future and challenges facing the Kurdistan Region were in focus on the closing day of the annual MERI Forum 2015, hosted by the prestigious Erbil-based Middle East Research Institute. Iranian and US experts sparred in the opening debate of the day, titled “The Iran nuclear deal and its impact on regional dynamics.”

Alireza Miryousefi, director of Iran’s Center for Middle East Studies (IPIS), declared that the “United States has always been a part of the problem and not the solution” and called it an “imperialist” power. Kenneth Pollack of the Brookings Institute in Washington responded that, if Iran insists on calling the US imperialist, then Washington will reply by labelling it “a sponsor of terrorism.”