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US strikes on Iran: The impact ripples on, from Baghdad to Beijing

China and Russia are among those having to revisit their strategic calculations.

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A funeral procession on June 28 for military commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes, with the images of those slain displayed around Enqelab Square in Tehran.

A funeral procession on June 28 for military commanders and scientists killed in Israeli strikes, with the images of those slain displayed around Enqelab Square in Tehran.

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Mr Donald Trump can manage both war and peace in 48 hours. Or at least that’s what the American President recently told the world.

One day, US stealth jets

hit Iran’s nuclear facilities

, dropping on them some of the heaviest conventional bombs ever invented. But the very next day, Mr Trump proclaimed that the “time for peace” had arrived.

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