A dangerous tit for tat


Caught in the middle: Mourners attending a memorial in Canada on Tuesday for the victims of the deadly downing of the Ukrainian airliner the week before in Iran. — AP

AN amplification of aggression among Iran and the United States, with Iraq caught in the middle, will have global reverberations, academics say.

Dr Nor Azizan Idris from Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Strategic Studies and International Relations department predicts that there will be an impact on Malaysian security and economy should tensions between the United States, Iran and Iraq intensify.

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