Iran must wish it never heard of Yahya Sinwar
Adrian Blomfield and Akhtar Makoii
They must be cursing the memory of Yahya Sinwar in Tehran’s corridors of power.
Occasionally in history, one individual tilts the course of events through a single incident: think of Gavrilo Princip’s assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in 1914 or George Washington firing the first shots of the Seven Years’ War with his ambush on French forces in the Ohio Valley in 1754.
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