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| | Foreign Affairs - Germany's New Ostpolitik: Changing Iran - Charles Lane (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05) |
 | | Germany has tried to maintain a "critical dialogue" of limited diplomacy and commerce, much as its Ostpolitik tried to engage Soviet bloc nations during the Cold War. |
 | | Although the two governments have assured each other that their objectives in southwest Asia are the same--to keep Iran from developing nuclear weapons, supporting terrorism, and disrupting the Arab-Israeli peace process--they differ radically on which means to use. |
 | | Germany is Iran's biggest trading partner, according to official U.S. figures, but France, Italy, Belgium, Sweden, Spain, Turkey, and, to a lesser extent, Great Britain all do hundreds of millions of dollars worth of business annually with Iran. |
| www.foreignaffairs.org /19951101faessay5080/charles-lane/germany-s-new-ostpolitik-changing-iran.html (618 words) |
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