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Iran: The Ballistics of Conflict Portends the Next Missile Crisis!

Persian history is mauled with conflict, internal battles both in political and religious conflicts and the influences of external interests. The Iran of today is a scant residue of its former self suffering the greatest loss of its former land-mass, its territories in the Caucasus, to the Russian Empire during the Russo-Persian wars (1800’s). The discovery of oil (in the early 1900’s) brought about the intense interest of the British and the Russians which, during the World War I & II years, only served to increase Iran’s political and economic instability.

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