US politics impacts on international relations

As the 2008 presidential election in the United States is heating up, how should US respond to Iran has become a subject of debate among candidates of both the Republican and Democratic parties. It can be expected that, in the coming months, the US presidential candidates would take up more foreign policy issues, especially on the chronically turbulent Middle East and resurgent or increasingly assertive Russia. Similarly, Iran, Russia and other countries and peoples in the world are also observing, talking, debating and reacting to United States' politics from the perspectives of their own values and/or interests.

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