Is the Iran War America’s Suez or Its Gallipoli?

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Thu, 16/04/2026 - 19:26
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Thu, 16/04/2026 - 19:26

ATHENS – When Egypt closed the Suez Canal for five months in 1956, it triggered events that shrunk the global standing of Britain’s pound sterling, inaugurated the petrodollar age, and demonstrated how a small country can inflict serious damage upon the economic power that had subjugated it decades earlier. Some argue that the United States […]

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