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Vance declared phase one of the Iran war done on September 15. Phase one was to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, conventional military and power projection. CSIS documented peak nuclear facility construction the same week. The mountain does not appear to have received the declaration.
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Vance declared phase one of the Iran war done on September 15. Phase one was to destroy Iran's nuclear programme, conventional military and power projection. CSIS documented peak nuclear facility construction the same week. The mountain does not appear to have received the declaration.
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The BRICS declaration on the Iran war says: deep concern, maximum restraint, no named actors. India authored it as chair. Eleven days earlier India signed the SCO condemnation of US-Israeli strikes. What a chair writes differs from what a signatory signs.
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Russia and North Korea opened their first road bridge on September 7. The same week the US began trilateral exercises with South Korea and Japan. Behind the bridge: 12,000 Korean troops in Ukraine, a mutual defence pact, Russian missile technology.
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A US munition struck a wedding in Kuhestak on September 1 and killed five people including a four-year-old boy. Reuters, the BBC and the AP independently confirmed it was a US weapon.
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The WFP halved food assistance to 200,000 West Bank Palestinians on September 2. Not because Israel blocked it. Because the US led donor governments in cutting the funding. Less than $20 a month per person. A decision, with 200,000 faces.
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