By Killing Qassem Suleimani, the U.S. Stopped Playing by Iran’s Rules
Mistaking a sleeping lion for a dead one.
January 9, 2020
By Killing Qassem Suleimani, the U.S. Stopped Playing by Iran’s Rules
Mistaking a sleeping lion for a dead one.
After over six months of escalating attacks on Washington’s allies and assets in the Middle East, Tehran has taken two steps too far: first, attacking a U.S. base in Iraq and killing an American citizen, and then responding to retaliatory airstrikes with an attack on the American embassy in Baghdad. The U.S. counterattack killed the Iranian general Qassem Suleimani and one of his most important Iraqi allies. In doing so, argues Assaf Orion, Washington has threatened the way of war that until now has brought the Islamic Republic so much success:
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