Why is the U.S. fighting Iran when they’re thousands of miles apart? The answer isn’t just Israel. It starts with Iran’s 1979 Islamic Revolution, a regime built to export its ideology, and a proxy network stretching from Lebanon to Yemen. Add the Sunni-Shia rivalry, Gulf state security, the nuclear question, and a missile defense numbers game, and the current escalation becomes clearer.
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