I watched the twin towers burn. Now the US is repeating its worst mistakes in Iran

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Twenty-five years of invasions and unconditional support for Israel have deepened the grievances behind 9/11 and left America less secure Twenty-five years ago, I stood in my office on the 24th floor of the Italian mission to the UN in New York, watching smoke pour from the twin towers of the World Trade Center in southern Manhattan. A quarter of a century later, the first question I ask myself is whether the country that suffered that heinous crime has changed - and the answer, unfortunately, i