Quote:Iranian military leader killed - Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force unit, was killed in an airstrike by US forces at Baghdad airport. The deputy head of Iraqi Popular Mobilization Forces (PMF), an Iran-backed paramilitary force, was also killed in the strike
Quote:Iran calls for revenge; Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed to avenge Soleimani whom he called a martyr.
Quote:Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is cutting short an official visit to Greece and returning home following the airstrike in Iraq, according to his office. He was originally scheduled to return Saturday night.
There's been no statement from Netanyahu yet, but his government is preparing for a possible retaliation from Iran, reports CNN's Oren Liebermann.
"Israel knows quite well that Iran could choose to respond not towards the US, but towards Israel, and that's because of the proximity of Iran's proxies and Iran's allies," Liebermann explained.
Just as absolute power corrupts leaders, so does absolute fanaticism blind the people from logic