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Just about as soon as the smoke from the Second World War began to clear, and efforts to begin rebuilding Europe were underway, mutual suspicion and distrust between the United States (US) and Soviet Russia (USSR) set in. Both the US and the USSR sought to strengthen their spheres of influence and the client states within them. In order to prevent the USSR from expanding its influence regionally and globally, the policy of Containment was initiated and served as a guiding force for US policy for decades. The story of how Iran gained the most powerful air force in the…
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