510. How The Iran War Is Spiralling Into a Global Crisis

  • The Rest Is Politics

  • 9 March 2026

  • Posted by Alastair Campbell

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Has Trump unleashed a sequence of events nobody in the world can control? How serious are the global consequences? Is this war even more dangerous than the Iraq war?


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