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Ian Bremmer's Quick Take: The Iranians have been hit by Israel, though no one is saying that Israel has admitted to doing it, in the town of Isfahan. This was a significantly more restrained attack than what the Israelis did to kick off this crisis, which was attack an Iranian government building in Damascus and target and assassinate a senior Iranian leader.
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