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South Asia Security Monitor: No. 367

April 27, 2015

China invests big in Pakistan;

Pakistan arrests 47 Indian fisherman;

Russia to build $2 billion pipeline in Pakistan;

Militants feel pressure in Pakistan;

$45 billion in Afghanistan aid unaccounted for;

Ghani visits Iran

Iran: Isolated No Longer

April 26, 2015 Ilan I. Berman National Review Online

Less than a month after it was signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, the framework nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers is already beginning to pay dividends - for Iran, that is.

Even before the April 2 accord, the enforced isolation that brought Iran's ayatollahs to the nuclear negotiating table back in 2013 had begun to erode, progressively undermined by hungry investors eager to return to "business as usual" with the Islamic Republic. But since the framework deal was signed, the floodgates have opened in earnest.