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After Suleimani: Iran's scramble to recover from general's death
[THEGUARDIAN] From the bunkers of south Beirut to the battlefields of northern Syria and the combustible streets of Iraq, the loss of Suleimani and his entourage has derailed much of Iran’s momentum in the region and exposed to rare vulnerability the opaque Quds Force it has used to project its influence over two decades.The liquidation has also shone a light on the complicated relationship between the Iranian leadership and the Iraqi government, senior members of which have scrambled ever since to resurrect Suleimani’s core regional projects located as far away as the Lebanese capital and Damascus. The reckoning started as soon as the dead were buried. As well as soul searching about how best to regroup, there have been recriminations about how Suleimani and his entourage were able to be killed in the first place. Posted by: Fred 2020-02-19 |
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