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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Voices: The true cost of Donald Trump’s Iran war is finally coming home to Britain

It is now three months since Donald Trump, in concert with Benjamin Netanyahu, launched his illegal war of choice against Iran.

It did not, as the president may well have expected, end quickly – or even at all. Just as the president was warned it would be, Iran proved to be a rather different challenge to his audacious move to take over Venezuela. Despite some notable tactical successes, including the removal of the supreme leader, it has proved a strategic disaster.

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