Tensions
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Iran, with its back to the wall as sanctions bite harder (especially the recent SWIFT and central bank restrictions, and Europe’s decision to stop importing Iranian oil), could react by increasing
tensions
in the Gulf.
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We're constantly creating
tensions
and conflicts.
Tensions
between these two families date back to 1913 when there was a dispute over local political power.
Will there be
tensions
over immigration, or conflicts over competition for limited resources?
By increasing the political attractiveness of the state, especially in our ethnically fragmented societies in Africa, aid tends to accentuate ethnic
tensions
as every single ethnic group now begins struggling to enter the state in order to get access to the foreign aid pie.
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