Iran Tests Its Pain Threshold in Survival Battle
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by Golnar Motevalli, BloombergMarch 4, 2026
Iran is no stranger to survival battles. The brutality of the eight-year war with Iraq in the 1980s; two decades of sanctions that upended the economy and countless bouts of street protests that have challenged its rule. It has always found a way to survive. But it has never faced anything close to the devastating air strikes from Israel and the US over the last five days.
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Originally published on RealClearPolitics on 3/4/2026