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The missile and air war that Israel and Iran have spent decades planning for has come, and it is spectacular and terrifying.

On June 16th the Israeli Defence Forces ( IDF) said that they had destroyed more than 120 of Iran’s ballistic missile ...

Iran’s internal weakness has encouraged attacks before. Some 45 years ago, amid its post-revolutionary disarray, Saddam ...