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RT by @mikenov: RT by @mikenov: 🇺🇦🇮🇷 Ukraine and Iran nearly fused two wars last week, then both backed off within days Ukrainian drones flew more than a thousand kilometers to hit Iran-linked shipping in the Caspian, killing an Iranian sailor. Araghchi said it could not go unanswered. For about seventy-two hours the Russia-Ukraine war and the Iran war looked ready to become one conflict with shared enemies and overlapping target sets. Then the two foreign ministers got on the phone. Kyiv called the strike unintentional, both governments said they wanted no escalation, and Tehran’s demand shrank to compensation. That retreat carries more information than the strike did. Iran is already a