"Pakistan-Iran: Pakistani President Zardari and Interior Minister Rehman Malik will travel to Tehran on 16 July to meet Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad, according to Iran's ambassador to Pakistan, an Iranian news agency reported on the 14th.
Comment: This is more fallout from the killing of bin Laden. Pakistan is reaching out even to Iran to reduce dependence on the US. What is not clear is whether the Pakistani leadership understands that in reaching out to Iran it is reaching out to yet another Chinese proxy for some purposes.
What they do seem to understand is that in reaching out to Iran they are reaching out to a viscerally anti-US leadership. The message Zardari is sending is Pakistan has options that are not congenial to US interests.
Theoretically, Iran and Pakistan could carve up southern Afghanistan into spheres of influence, after 2014, if they could ever overcome their mutual suspicions. They could leave northern Afghanistan to the Chinese who are exploiting its mineral deposits, protected by NATO forces."
It's worth pointing out [for my ego's sake] that I was virtually the only one who seemed to notice how strategically inept it was to kill Osama - or, at least, kill him in the way they did.
