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RT Policy Tensor (@policytensor)What have we learnt so far? What are the surprises? What has been discovered about the shape of the world?Here’s the five most important.1 — The most important discovery is that Iran is a great power. This is a real discovery that was not known to the Iranians themselves; specifically, they could not be sure in advance that a strategic victory over the US was achievable. It is a fundamental discovery about the polarity of the system: there are now four great powers in the wor ...