But with the cold war over, the West is no longer interested in supporting a once strategic ally.

Washington and Moscow have some obligation to steer their strategic allies away from the abyss.

Iran is an important country and a natural strategic ally against the Soviet Union.

If your strategic ally has structural economic problems, you have to worry.

"We are a strategic ally of the United States," he said.

I knew what they were like as a strategic ally and the resources they had.

And it has used its importance as a strategic ally to make Western leaders complicit in this burial of history.

Their shared background has made them strategic allies on various issues including those of defense.

More than ever, our two continents must be strategic allies within the international community.

After all, the United States remains our most important strategic ally.