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The war is turning Iran into a major world power
Its new-found might derives from its control over the Strait of Hormuz.
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If Iranian control over the strait persists for months or years, it will drastically reshape the global order to the detriment of the US.
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Robert A Pape
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In recent years, the conventional geopolitical wisdom has been that the world order was moving towards three centres of power: the United States, China and Russia. That view assumed that power derived primarily from economic scale and military capability.
