Iran has vowed an unspecified harsh retaliation for the killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani. But will it risk war?
Iran's ambassador to the United Nations said Saturday "the response for a military action is military action," as fears grew that a U.S. airstrike that killed the head of Tehran's elite Quds force and mastermind of its security and intelligence strategy will draw Washington and the Middle East region into a broader military conflict.
It will"not play out on U.S. televisions as some grand campaign. It will be asymmetric and messy, playing out on shipping lanes and computer servers," said Gregory Brew, a historian of Iran and its oil industry, in a social media post. Story continuesSeparately, a closer adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei told CNN in an interview Sunday that his country's response to the killing by the U.S. of one its most influential commanders will certainly be a military response"against military sites."Trump abandoned a nuclear deal between Iran and world powers 18 months ago, reinstating sanctions on Iran's economy and oil sector.
There also appeared to be some celebrations in Baghdad over Soleimani's death, a point highlighted by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. For while Soleimani was a consequential figure who was respected and feared in equal measure, he was also, as the former journalist and Middle East expert Kim Ghattas writes on the website of the Atlantic magazine, responsible for upholding"a repressive system and was seen as the man responsible for Iran's role in costly wars abroad.
Amelie de Montchalin, France's deputy minister for foreign affairs, told French radio that that the U.S. action had created"a more dangerous world."
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