Matthew Goodwin, NY Post
Jim Geraghty, National Review
For 40 years, Tehran’s philosophy has been simple and direct: ‘Death to America!’
Alireza Nader, FDD
The killing of General Qassem Soleimani by U.S. forces has removed a huge threat to U.S. national security. But the source of the problem, the Islamic Republic in Iran, still stands. And while the regime is likely to retaliate against U.S. interests, Soleimani’s death comes at a vulnerable time for the regime as it fights economic collapse and popular rebellion....
Evan Osnos, New Yorker
Washington is in an intensifying standoff with Beijing. Which one will fundamentally shape the twenty-first century?
Steven Cook, Council on Foreign Relations
The killing in Baghdad of Iranian Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani escalates an already tense contest in Iraq between U.S. and Iran-backed forces, makes the battle against the Islamic State more difficult, and is likely to feed further regional upheaval.
Edward Lucas, Times of London
Airbrushing Soviet collaboration with the Nazis is yet another Kremlin distraction technique
Daniel Byman, Vox
But has Trump really thought out what comes next?
Jonathan Swan, Axios
The Trump administration tried, unsuccessfully, to persuade top Iraqi officials to kill a parliamentary effort to force the U.S. military out of Iraq, according to two U.S. officials and an Iraqi government official familiar with the situation.
Hassan Hassan, Guardian
His experience was invaluable in Tehran’s effort to extend its reach into Lebanon and Yemen. So, for many, there are few tears to be shed.
Stephen Walt, Foreign Policy
Lacking coherent objectives and a strategy for achieving them, moves like the assassination of Qassem Suleimani are foreign policy as theaterâ?"and could leave the United States worse off.
James Pardew, The Hill
The question of war with Iran is now settled. With President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize the U.S. military to execute Gen.
Hussein Ibish, Bloomberg View
Tehran knows direct conflict would impose huge costs on the Islamic Republic.
Murtaza Hussain, The Intercept
N THE FOUR DECADES since the 1979 Iranian Revolution, few Iranian leaders have achieved the global profile attained by Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the military commander killed in an American airstrike on Thursday. After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Suleimani emerged as the United States’s most capable adversary in that country. His American counterpart at a key point during the occupation, General David Petraeus, described Suleimani as “a truly evil figure” in a letter to Robert Gates... Читать дальше...
Ben Hubbard et al, New York Times
BEIRUT — The consequences of the American assassination of a top Iranian general rippled across the Middle East and beyond on Sunday, with Iran ending commitments it made to limit its nuclear fuel production and Iraqi lawmakers voting to expel American forces from their country.
