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America’s Wild 'World War III' Plan for Iran, and Israel’s Part in It

The Pentagon’s top strategists, in concert with their Israeli peers, prepared for an almost apocalyptic war in Iran in the 1980s, to counter a Soviet invasion. So why have those plans just been declassified – and published?

Amir Oren
Amir Oren
Amir Oren
Amir Oren

It may sound fantastic now, and was probably not really feasible even then.

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