What Trump doesn’t know about Iran At the time of his assassination, General Qasem Soleimani’s strat­egy in Iraq and other countries in the Middle East with large Shia populations had become counterproductive. He is now guaranteed the status of a great Iranian warrior and a Shia martyr, in spite of the mistakes he made in the … Continue reading PATRICK COCKBURN.-Blundering into War(LRB 2.1.2020)… Continue reading »