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A strike on Bushehr, a bridge to Beijing: what the 9 July escalation actually tells us
A US strike near Iran's Bushehr nuclear plant and the destruction of a rail bridge on Iran's north-south corridor mark the moment a shadow war became an open one — and reset the calculus for Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran alike.

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Separate what the nuclear watchdog reported from what it could not determine after the June 2025 strikes.
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