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The curly braces { } have NOTHING to do with the if().
Code formatting rules that pretend otherwise are misleading.

People who indent like
	if ( cond )
		{
		stmt1
		stmt2
		}
most likely do so because the compound statement
		{
		stmt1
		stmt2
		}
is under control of the if().  The only slight possible quibble is
that really the insides of a compound statement could be indented
to show the scope of the compound statement:
		{
			stmt1
			stmt2
		}
With 8-column tab spacing, though, this turns out to be unworkable,
so virtually everyone using this style doesn't indent the insides
of a compound statement.