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  "textContent": "Iran’s regime has spent years making plans to cope without its leadership and built a defence designed to survive and draw the US into an unwinnable ground war, writes world affairs editor Sam Kiley",
  "title": "Unlike Trump, Iran’s regime has been plotting this war for decades",
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