Afghani President Hamid Karzai (R) and Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta (L) attend a meeting with the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member-nations in Yekaterinburg on June 16, 2009. Iran's under-fire President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined an array of world leaders at a regional summit in Russia, defiantly declaring that the age of empires had ended. Getty Images logo Getty Images 32 months ago

Afghani President Hamid Karzai (R) and Foreign Minister Rangin Dadfar Spanta (L) attend a meeting with the heads of state of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) member-nations in Yekaterinburg on June 16, 2009. Iran's under-fire President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad joined an array of world leaders at a regional summit in Russia, defiantly declaring that the age of empires had ended.

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