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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro and Robert Tait in Washington

Iran is not Venezuela, despite Trump’s hopes of repeating ‘regime capture’ strategy

A crowd protesting in Iran after the death of Ali Khomenei
Iran has had no diplomatic links with the US since 1980, and its people have long regarded the US as their ideological enemy. Photograph: Akhtar Soomro/Reuters

First, the CIA tracks the head of an oil-rich, US-baiting nation to a heavily guarded compound at the heart of his country’s mountain-flanked capital.

Then, that leader is removed from power with a deadly and irresistible show of US military force.

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