Current Dar Al Hayat Analysis; ![](https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFtn9PVmsM8SuHdWkPlURFxPb0WJrmmGkUQBiidMKRoZXe6WexVQEqWVtmNH7H_h0y1ARYTKvRAeXP1k_eX4Wd8S9kGjrjV-Zmv3wZ3lmP0DIup4sUWVQH_9iGZ8nJs1jiaqwX/s400/bush-ahmad.jpg)
Who is, politically, in better shape? Iran's President Mahmud Ahmadinejad or his implacable opponent, U.S. President George W Bush? Both leaders are conservative hawks. Both have recently crushed dissent at home and imposed their authority. But both face very considerable difficulties - political, economic and strategic.[...]One way and another, Iran seems better placed than the United States to retain and exercise long-term influence in the Gulf region. Once America's troops return home, and its calamitous neo-colonial adventures in Iraq and Afghanistan are brought to a close - as they must be sooner or later -- Iran will be the neighbour with whom the Arabs will have to live, trade, work and coexist. Geography cannot be denied.
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