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Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear
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Iran has made our most urgent national-security priority painfully clear
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- currentsapi-gapfill(Mixed)By Rich Lowry
During the 1979-1981 hostage crisis, a defiant Iran starkly demonstrated the limits of American power. Forty-five years later, it is doing the same thing, although in vastly different circumstances. Back then, a time when the post-Vietnam military was at a low ebb, we didn’t stri…
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