ANKARA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Iran is wrestling with a complex array of historic alliances and enmities as it tries to develop a coherent response to the swift advance of hostile Sunni Muslim militants in neighbouring Iraq.
Despairing of its protege Nuri al-Maliki, Tehran's Shi'ite clerical establishment has sent mixed messages on working with the Iraqi prime minister's other sponsor, the United States, with which it shares a goal of averting the country's break-up.
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