Will the recent tensions between Iran and the US trigger World War 3?
With the recent developments in the Middle East after the United States assassinating Qassem Soleimani, the Commander in Chief of Quds Force in the Baghdad International Airport, Iraq where Total of 12 people were killed, including the chief of Popular Mobilisation Unit (PMU), Abdul Mahdi.
On 3rd January 2020, after the world celebrated a New Year with new aspirations and new expectations.
On 8th January, the day completion of Funeral of Soleimani, Iran attacked largest of American military bases in Al Asad and Erbil of Iraq as potential revenge. Iranian State Media claims that 80 soldiers were killed in the attack, using 15 ballistic missiles.
What had happened?
Since mid-December, protests began to rage against the incumbent Prime Minister. One of the major demands of the protesters included freeing the country of foreign troops stationed.
Why are the troops stationed? They are stationed in order to help the Iraqi army and the Kurdish Peshmerga against Secteraian crisis post-2003 invasion of Iraq and later the fight against ISIS or ISIL. The…
