The regime wants to stay in power. Escalating the conflict with the U.S. even more would threaten that.Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, meets with the family of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in Iraq early Friday local time, in a photo released by the Iranian government. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader/AP)
The long, shape-shifting shadow war between the United States and Iran’s Islamic republic has taken a pivotal turn with the death of Qasem Soleimani, an infamous and iconic Iranian military commander, in a U.S. drone strike. By killing the architect of Iran’s expanded influence across the Middle East, the Trump administration has escalated simmering tensions with Tehran from an economic onslaught to an act of war that is likely to instigate a dangerous and unpredictable Iranian backlash.
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