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Smoke rises after a series of explosions are heard in Tehran, Iran, on March 1, 2026.
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Any comparison of the US-Iran conflict to the Russia-Ukraine war is ignorant

by Michael Rubin

As President Donald Trump ordered U.S. forces to begin their assault on Iran, David Hearst, the editor-in-chief of the Middle East Eye, a Qatari-funded, Al Jazeera offshoot, declared, "There is a chilling but uncanny resemblance in the way Donald Trump is preparing to attack Iran, and the way Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine." It is an ignorant statement infused with moral confusion. On July 12, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin published "On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians"

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