Trump assassinates a senior military leader of a state with which we are not at war, offering no evidence in support of the claimed justification that “the Iranian general was ‘plotting to kill’ US citizens” …
- Trump Claims Qassem Soleimani Was ‘Plotting to Kill’ Americans, and Urges US Citizens to Leave Iraq After Killing of Iran’s Top General (Independent)
- Trump Rattles Mideast, U.S. Politics With Risky Iran Strike (Bloomberg)
- Iran Vows ‘Retaliation’ After US kills Top General in Iraq (Deutsche Welle)
… and assassinated a leader of the group that attacked the U.S. embassy in Baghdad just after the group had withdrawn:
- Attack on US Embassy Exposes Widening US-Iraq Divide on Iran (AP)
- Iraq Deputy Parliament Speaker Vows ‘Decisive Decisions’ to End U.S. Presence in the Country (The Week)
- U.S. Urges American Citizens to Leave Iraq ‘Immediately’ (Tampa Bay Times)
Iran’s FM calls the assassination of the man who fought against ISIS “rogue adventurism”:
Is Trump’s act of war against Iran a desperate attempt to save a failing presidency?
- Trump Is Clueless on Iran and North Korea (Slate)
- Trump Tweets Predicting Obama Would Start a War with Iran to Get Reelected Are Coming Back to Haunt Him (Business Insider)
Gold and “[o]ther haven assets, including Treasury bonds, platinum, and silver, rose on news of the US strike”:
Tunisia may be an anomaly and elsewhere “Islamists and conservatives … may face a radical version of the Enlightenment: fiercely anticlerical and decidedly antireligious”:
- A New Secularism Is Appearing in Islam (NY Times)
