29 Mar 2024
Monday 13 January 2020 - 15:50
Story Code : 367974

Impact of Soleimani's assassination is playing out in unexpected ways

The Guardian | : Qassem Suleimanis wrecked car was still smouldering when the predicted consequences of his death started to rebound across the Middle East.

There would be chaos, outrage, instability maybe even war. Among those who opposed the killing and those who cheered it on, there was more or less consensus: things would never be the same again.

One week on, that maxim still holds in a region still grappling with its impact. Yet the aftermath of the most significant assassination of modern times has not created the turmoil that many had predicted. If anything, the heartland areas of the Iranian generals extraordinary sphere of influence are, thus far, eerily calm. His home front, on the other hand, remains unsettled and reeling not so much as a result of his death, but because of those of 176 passengers onboard a Ukrainian airliner shot from the sky in the panicked days that followed.

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