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IT MIGHT BE DIFFICULT TO DISCERN THROUGH the black clouds billowing from bomb craters in Tehran, but Iran has spent most of the 21st century as the region’s rising power. Until recently, things had re

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Oil shock averted? World leaders and commodity traders have spent the past fortnight on edge as the long-running Iran-Israel conflict turned hot. Matters came to a head at the weekend when the US dire

THROUGH A MIXTURE OF AUDACITY, RUTHLESS-ness, and luck, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has upended the balance of power between Israel and Iran, its most threatening regional adversary, and remade