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    "Defense and Military Forces",
    "US and Israeli Attack on Iran (2026)",
    "War and Armed Conflicts",
    "Israel-Gaza War (2023- )",
    "Iran-Israel War (2025- )",
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    "Khamenei, Ali",
    "Netanyahu, Benjamin",
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  "textContent": "Iran’s military retaliation, along with the political defiance of its new leaders, evokes a decades-old pattern of unrealized goals for American interventions in the region.",
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