Although the Iranian people and armed forces have defended their country against two nuclear-armed powers, they still see the conflict as one imposed on them, a clash that they were never eager to ...

At no point during its history did Pakistan meet these criteria. It was a nuclear-armed country on the fringes of the Western order, associated more often with regional instability than with conflict ...

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