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As a tentative ceasefire holds, the missile threat Trump invoked to attack Iran comes with an awkward historical footnote—Israel could have helped to build it By Elaine Sciolino Among the reasons Donald Trump has given for waging war on Iran is the need to destroy its nuclear program and eliminate its missile threat. But had history turned out differently, Iran’s Islamic Republic could have possessed a vast arsenal of advanced long-range ballistic missiles armed with nuclear warheads, able to...