Tehran likely to’ aim revenge’ through agent militias in Iraq, Syria and Lebanon

Iran will feel it has little choice but to respond US assassination of Qassem Suleimani, according to armed consultants who expect Tehran to seek a calibrated response- though it was risks further eliciting an once unreliable Donald Trump.

That would reiterate the thinking of western intelligence, which believes that Iran has recently haunted a plan of trying to embarrass or irk the US in an attempt to persuade Washington its best programme could be to end to its cripple campaign of economic sanctions.

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