The Middle East is about to see an “uptick” in violence after the US “lit a fuse” by killing Iran’s most powerful military commander in an airstrike, Cato Institute Director of Foreign Policy Studies John Glaser says.
“It’s hard to overstate how important of a figure [Major-General Qassem] Soleimani was in Iran and how unstable the interstate relations in the region are right now,” he said.
“We’ve lit a fuse and things were already pretty bad. “What we have to do is look really closely at the justifications for this strike and think about what kind of strategy the administration thinks it's actually pursuing — I don’t think there’s much there.” Image: AP
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