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No adversary has damaged Western civilisation as profoundly as Israel
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Iran never made the West abandon its own principles. Israel did.

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The US bombing of a school in Minab, Iran, on 28 February 2026 killed at least 156 people -- 120 of them children, 26 teachers, all women
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