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Two weeks into a military campaign that US President Donald Trump has described as a “short-term excursion,” the consequences of what has been designated Operation Epic Fury are being felt across the Middle East, through global energy markets, and in the foreign ministries of nations that had no say in the decision to launch it.
The Iranian regime remains in place. And it is striking back.
Iran: A Country That Defies Easy Solutions
To understand why this conflict has escalated in the ways it has, it is necessary to understand what Iran actually is — not as an abstraction in a geopolitical framework, but as a physical and political reality that presents challenges of a different order than the interventions that preceded it.
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