The Assassination Of Iran’s Soleimani: Victory For Trump, Failure For The US? – Analysis

By Pieter-Jan Dockx*

On 3 January, a US drone strike near Baghdad airport killed Major General Qasem Soleimani of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as well as his main Iraqi ally, militia leader Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis. The assassinations are the latest escalation of a series of tit-for-tat attacks between the US...