Have Iran’s ‘compensatory’ strikes now settled the score?
It is hard not to notice that all sides are wanting to quickly move on
08 January 2020 - 19:40
London — Iran’s major-general Qassem Soleimani would have been devastated to learn that his surviving colleagues at the top of his country’s government considered the firing of 20 missiles at US bases a “proportionate response” to his assassination.
Whether Tehran’s military response is truly complete, of course, remains uncertain — though foreign minister Javad Zarif was unusually clear in tweeting shortly afterwards that the strikes “concluded a proportionate response”...
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