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Why is Iran’s nuclear programme so essential to its identity?

ByPatrick Wintour

Why does a country with large oil reserves feel such a need to have home-grown civil nuclear energy?Middle East crisis – live updatesIn October 1978, two leaders of the Iranian opposition to the British-backed shah of Iran met in the Paris suburbs of N…

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‘This friend of ours will soon be an enemy’: how Iran became Israel’s foe

ByRobert Tait in Washington

Iran was once an ally of Israel and the US, but after the 1979 revolution that disposed the shah, alliances shiftedWith the US now in open warfare with Iran in a long-heralded conflict triggered by fear for Israel’s existence, it is worth recalling the…

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‘This friend of ours will soon be an enemy’: how Iran became Israel’s foe

ByRobert Tait in Washington

Iran was once an ally of Israel and the US, but after the 1979 revolution that disposed the shah, alliances shiftedWith the US now in open warfare with Iran in a long-heralded conflict triggered by fear for Israel’s existence, it is worth recalling the…