January 14, 2020 Print Edition
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Where the US-Iran shadow war goes from here
The man once celebrated in Tehran as “the living martyr,” Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani, is now just a martyr in the traditional sense. Felled by a U.S. drone strike in Iraq, his life ended in the conflict zone that launched his career nearly 40 years ago. As the leader of the deadly Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, Soleimani was the lynchpin in Iran’s transnational terrorism apparatus, stretching from Yemen to Lebanon to Latin America and beyond. His death therefore marks a significant political and strategic setback for the Islamic Republic. But this does not mean that the regime’s regional threat network is defeated. The Islamic Republic’s well-trained and amply funded proxies and sectarian allies await the marching orders of Soleimani’s successor. Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has called upon Soleimani’s successor, Brig. Gen. Esmail...
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