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Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea

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By Daniel Drake Verified, Christopher de Bellaigue
| Soundings from The New York Review
As President Trump’s erratic negotiations with Iran drag on and oil prices continue to rise, the United States’ ostensible ethical justification for the war—regime change—has largely disappeared from mainstream coverage.
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Iran’s New Winter | Christopher de Bellaigue

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By Christopher de Bellaigue
| Soundings from The New York Review
In 1953 Iran’s prime minister, Mohammad Mossadegh, was toppled in a coup planned by MI6 and the CIA and carried out by Iranian army units and hoodlums supportive of Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Mossadegh had nationalized Iran’s British-run oil industry and allowed Iranians more freedom than they had ever known; the constitutional monarchy he favored was a path between the extremes of royal tyranny and popular radicalism that had beset the country for the previous three quarters of a century.
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Is Barrow still Britain's unhappiest town? New submarines offer a lifeboat

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By Christopher de Bellaigue
| UnHerd Verified
'Barrow-in-Furness is the quintessentially left-behind former boomtown.' (Christopher Furlong/ Getty) Arms industryBAE systemsBarrow-in-Furnessdeindustrialisationmilitary spendingRegenerationThe North “Barrow’s a shithole,” said the site manager. “The gulls are as big as dogs and the streets are rubbish tips and every woman has a tattoo.” When he first came to the area he lived in Barrow itself, but at the first opportunity he moved to the nearby market town of Ulverston.
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