Fallout and tensions continue to mount following the U.S. assassination of Iran’s top military commander and “national hero” Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad last week. Millions took to the streets Monday in a display of national unity after Soleimani’s assassination was carried out at the command of President Trump. On Friday, new information revealed that Soleimani was traveling as part of negotiations between Iran and Saudi Arabia in an attempt to defuse tensions in the region when he was killed. Guardian journalist Ghaith Abdul-Ahad says that before the attack “there was an understanding between the Americans and the Iranians” that allowed officials from Iran and the U.S. to move freely within Iraq and maintained relative goodwill toward American bases. Now, he says, it will be hard for the Iraqi public to see the bases as anything but “a force that is driving them into a war between Iran and the United States.” “The rules of the game have totally changed,” he says.
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