BBCNEWS Dateline London January 4, 2020
Its been a week of tit for tat, which escalated dramatically in the early hours of friday morning. The previous friday, a us civilian working in iraq was killed in an attack, which washington believed was the work of an iranian backed militia. It struck back with airstrikes in iraq. The government in baghdad grumbled about a breach of sovereignty, protestors tried to storm the us embassy there, and ayatollah khameni appeared on television to waggle his finger at President Trump. Then on friday, with the explicit authority of the president , qasem soleimani, was killed. The United States. The p...