From Russia to France and within the US itself, people feel the world is not as safe today — but Iraqis are celebrating
A mock US flag for cars to drive on in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on January 3 2020, following news of the killing of Iranian Revolutionary Guards top commander Qasem Soleimani in a US strike at Baghdad international airport. Picture: AFP/AHMAD AL-RUBAYEThe world reacted with alarm on Friday after top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani was killed in a US strike in Iraq, with leaders appealing for restraint.
“Wow — the price of killing and injuring Americans has just gone up drastically,” Senator Lindsey Graham, a close confidant of Trump, wrote on Twitter.“The killing of Soleimani ... was an adventurist step that will increase tensions throughout the region,” the Russian foreign ministry was quoted as saying by news agencies RIA Novosti and TASS. “Soleimani served the cause of protecting Iran’s national interests with devotion. We express our sincere condolences to the Iranian people.
“The assassination of an Iraqi military commander in an official post is an aggression against the country of Iraq, its state, its government and its people,” he said in a statement.
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