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Iran
The Guardian view on the US and Iran: relief may be short-lived
Tehran’s immediate response to the killing of Qassem Suleimani was carefully controlled. It is also unlikely to spell an end to the crisis
Relief at Iran’s significant but calibrated retaliation against the US for the killing of Qassem Suleimani is an understandable and merited instinct. Matters could be much worse today. But there can be no complacency: the dangers have been briefly stayed, not averted. While Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran “appears to be standing down”, we will not know the true impact of the killing for months and probably years.
The strikes on Iraqi bases hosting US and coalition troops constituted Iran’s most direct attack on Americans since the seizing of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, and the first direct assault on a US base. This was a bold and symbolic display: an operation timed to match the moment of the general’s death. But it was also limited. Despite Iranian claims of 80 casualties, the US says no Americans were hurt. The Iraqi prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, has said the Iranians warned him of their actions just ahead of the attack. The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, stated on Twitter that his country had concluded its response and that “we do not seek escalation or war”.
Iran
The Guardian view on the US and Iran: relief may be short-lived
Tehran’s immediate response to the killing of Qassem Suleimani was carefully controlled. It is also unlikely to spell an end to the crisis
Relief at Iran’s significant but calibrated retaliation against the US for the killing of Qassem Suleimani is an understandable and merited instinct. Matters could be much worse today. But there can be no complacency: the dangers have been briefly stayed, not averted. While Donald Trump said on Wednesday that Iran “appears to be standing down”, we will not know the true impact of the killing for months and probably years.
The strikes on Iraqi bases hosting US and coalition troops constituted Iran’s most direct attack on Americans since the seizing of the US embassy in Tehran in 1979, and the first direct assault on a US base. This was a bold and symbolic display: an operation timed to match the moment of the general’s death. But it was also limited. Despite Iranian claims of 80 casualties, the US says no Americans were hurt. The Iraqi prime minister, Adel Abdul-Mahdi, has said the Iranians warned him of their actions just ahead of the attack. The Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, stated on Twitter that his country had concluded its response and that “we do not seek escalation or war”.
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