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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Sam Kiley

Iran’s desire for nuclear weapons has only been spurred on by US strikes – no matter what Trump says

We have entered a new rogue order. The rules-based order that underpins international relations, helped the birth of modern Israel and held back annihilation during the Cold War, has finally been blown away.

It crumbled with the 2003 US-led illegal invasion of Iraq, which paved the way for Russia’s illegal colonial war in Ukraine and now Israel’s attacks on Iran, enhanced by American bunker busters and stealth bombers.

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