Tension has prevailed between Iran and the US for the past many years.
KECH: Tension has prevailed between Iran and the US for the past many years. From the 1979 US embassy hostage crisis to the 2000s nuclear fears and sanctions, to the recent killing of General Qasem Soleimani, the head of the Iranian revolutionary Quds force, there have not been a single year of good ties between Iran and the US. The recent killing of General Qasem Soleimani the head of Iran’s elite Quds force, will mark a major escalation for the ties between Washington and Tehran. Accordingly, the president of Iran in a tweet called Soleimani, “The international face of resistance” and also tweeted “The great Nation of Iran will take the revenge to United States for his heinous crime”. Likewise, Iran calls him a hero and a profound intellectual. On the other hand, the US accused him of “killings and being involved in (m) urders and wounding thousands of Americans over an extended period of time and was plotting to kill more but got caught”. Subsequently, many of the politicians and journalists analyse that the tensions might increase between the two countries. According to the British economist Jason Towe, everything depends on Iran’s response, “As, we are concerned that this breakthrough has increased the risk of conflict on the region”. Consequently, the world powers need to be more concerned over the tensions between the US and Iran. In short, such statements and incidents show that conditions in the world, mainly in the Middle East, will be even tenser and that such calamities will lead the world toward bloody wars.
Feroz Rahim Baluch
Published in The Express Tribune, January 5th, 2020.
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