Adding to the tension, on February 25th Seymour Hersh, a journalist at the New Yorker, published details of contingency plans for war with Iran.

更令人紧张的是，2月25《纽约客》资深撰稿人西摩·赫什公爆出了大量可能对伊朗突发作战的细节。

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Among recent conflicts, only the Iran-Iraq war - featuring trench warfare and gas, and claiming up to a million lives between 1980 and 1988 - can even be usefully compared.

在近期的战争中，只有两伊战争能与之相提并论，因为战争中战壕战与毒气战的使用，1980至1988年间，有上百万人在战争中丧命。

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Mr. Ahmadinejad also declared that "no outside power can impose its will on Iran, " and that "no country in the world ... would dare to wage war on Iran."

艾哈迈迪内贾德还宣布，“没有任何外来的力量可以把自己的意愿强加给伊朗”，“世界上没有任何一个国家胆敢向伊朗发动战争”。

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We had the impeachment of President Clinton, we had the Vietnam War, we had the Iran-Contra investigation, periods when the two parties had an enormously high level of tension.

VOA: special.2011.01.10

And one of the best analogies you can think of is the oil rich nations of the world in post-World War Two, in the post-World War Two era, whether it's Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Iran, the Emirates, or Venezuela, name--today Russia.

做个非常恰当的类比,你们可以把棉花想象成,二战后时期的石油,想想沙特阿拉伯,伊拉克,伊朗,阿联酋,委内瑞拉,和今天的俄罗斯吧

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Syria has been allied with Tehran since the outset of the war between Iran and Iraq in 1980.

VOA: standard.2009.03.18

What we have nowadays is a piece of cake compared to what we suffered in Iraq-Iran war.

BBC: NEWS | Middle East | Iraq election log: 31 January 2005

When the Iraq-Iran War broke out in 1980, some 3, 000 workers on the project had to be evacuated overnight.

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This specter of an Israel-Iran war, whoever starts it, has become a looming threat for IT and communication systems everywhere.

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