Iran's top general, Qasem Soleimani, killed in US airstrike ■ Trump ordered the strike ■ Iran calls for revenge The strike comes after members of an Iran-backed paramilitary force attempted to storm the US embassy in Baghdad. Follow live updates:
The immediate answer is nothing too much that's new.
US diplomatic facilities will also go into lockdown to avoid reprisals, with Beirut in Lebanon and Erbil in the semi-autonomous Kurdish region of northern Iraq exercising the most likely caution. Realistically, the longer term threat is to US allies which can't -- like Israel -- simply leave the region or go into lockdown.
Saudi Arabia has already been attacked by drones and rockets that Iran said were fired by its Yemen Houthi rebel proxies, but the US said originated from Iran.
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