Home pagePress CenterIn the Media Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Associated Press, "West Links Drug War Aid to Iranian Nuclear Impasse."
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Anthony Cordesman, the CSIS Arleigh A. Burke Chair in Strategy, was quoted by the Associated Press, "West Links Drug War Aid to Iranian Nuclear Impasse."
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iranian forces have battled for years in the lonely canyons and deserts on the Afghan border against opium and heroin traffickers -- winning rare praise from the United States and aid from Europe for the fight along one of the world's busiest drug routes.
Establishing security and delivering aid in southern Afghanistan would do much more to tackle the drug problem and stop the Taliban, said Anthony Cordesman, a security analyst for the U.S.-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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