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RT Arash Reisinezhad (@arashreisi)In the 1960s, under the Shah, the United States declined to help Iran build a steel industry, preferring it remain a supplier of raw materials rather than an industrial power. Iran turned the Soviet Union instead and built it anyway.Yesterday, the Mobarakeh Steel Complex, the largest industrial unit in Iran and the largest steel producer in the Middle East, in Isfahan was struck by the U.S. and Israel. What was once denied as development is now treated as a threat. Once bui ...