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FlashyBear
Iran hade det så bra.
De kunde attackera (via proxy) sin ärkefiendes
KSA oljeanläggningar utan några större konsekvenser.
De kunde beslagta svenskägt "brittiskt" fartyg utan några större konsekvenser.
Trumps "röda linje" var att Iran måste lämna amerikanerna ifred. Nu får Iran betala

Bloomberg berättar att det visst var så:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/artic...ircle-of-aides
Trump’s Iran Strike Planned Swiftly With Tight Circle of Aides
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Iranian general Qassem Soleimani haunted the U.S. for more than two decades, a lethal adversary blamed for the deaths of hundreds of American troops in the Middle East.
Yet his stature as the second most powerful person in Iran made him almost untouchable in the eyes of Donald Trump’s predecessors.
That longstanding U.S. restraint ended in dramatic fashion Thursday with Trump’s order to launch a nighttime airstrike in Baghdad that killed Soleimani and drove tensions with Iran to the boiling point.
The president’s decision to target the powerful head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force came together swiftly, following the death of an American contractor in a Dec. 27 rocket attack by an Iranian-backed militia against a U.S. base in Iraq. Soon after the attack, Trump ordered a handful of his most senior aides to begin planning a strike on the Iranian general, according to three people familiar with the matter.
The Trump administration had recently asked France and other allies to warn Tehran against killing Americans, according to one of the people. For the president, a red line had been crossed.
Trump gick så långt att han bad Macron & Co att avråda och avskräcka Iran från döda amerikanerna. Trump har verkligen försökt undvika det.
Oh, father tell me, do we get what we deserve?
Oh, we get what we deserve
And way down we go