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by CamperBob2 58 days ago
No wonder at all. They took 500,000 casualties in the Iraq war, including from chemical weapons, and survived to fight the next one.
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90 million people, and fairly well educated and industrious at that. Iran is not some tribesmen at low development in Afghanistan, they would actually be a solidly developing country on par with China if they weren’t heavily sanctioned and held back by the clerics and revolutionary guard.