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Regional countries forming alliance against US interference

Yusef Jalali
Press TV, Tehran

'Iran and its neighbors' is the title of this conference. It has brought together high-ranking Iranian officials to highlight the country’s new approach toward its neighboring countries and its plan to improve its ties with all its neighbors.

Iran has on different occasions expressed its opposition to any foreign military presence in the region, calling it destabilizing. Officials say regional nations have come to share the same view. A case in point, they say, is the Iraqi parliament's move to vote unanimously in favor of the expulsion of American troops from its soil, which set the start of the US's exit from Afghanistan as well.

Since Ebrahim Raeisi took office as the new Iranian president, he has shifted the country's foreign policy and concentrated it on constructive ties with Iran's neighbors. He called the initiative the neighborhood policy, which he believes will bear economic benefits for his country as well, including obviating the need for Iran to rely on US sanctions removal to run the economy.

Officials here say Iran and its neighbors are increasingly coming together in what they view as a regional alliance against the US and its interference in the region. They believe the withdrawal of American forces from Afghanistan and Iraq was a quick result of that alliance, and will lead to a safer and more stable West Asia.


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