In Its Latest Confrontation with the United States, Iran Has Backed Down
But its efforts to expel the U.S. from Iraq will continue.
January 13, 2020
In Its Latest Confrontation with the United States, Iran Has Backed Down
But its efforts to expel the U.S. from Iraq will continue.
On January 8, in response to the American airstrikes that killed Qassem Suleimani, the commander of the Islamic Republic’s forces abroad, Tehran launched 22 missiles at two military instillations in Iraq, causing neither Iraqi nor American casualties. Jonathan Spyer notes that, from the ayatollahs’ perspective, an appropriate act of vengeance would have involved the killing of a U.S. figure of similar prominence to Suleimani, or, failing that, a considerable number of more junior personnel. Yet they chose not to attempt such an attack:
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