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Suez in 1956 and Iran in 2026 – are there any parallels?
May 2nd, 2026 by Roger Darlington
This week, I watched a television documentary on the Suez crisis of 1956, a period that I knew too little about as I was only eight years old at the time. In this crisis, Britain and France, together with Israel, concluded that Nasser’s acquisition of the Suez Canal represented some kind of existential threat. They […]
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