UPDATE: US - #Iran Escalation via Iraq

• Trump warns Iran against killing “one American”, tweets photo of rockets
• White House meeting on Iran
• Reports on IRGC leader visit to Iraq
• Video of Suleimani moments before killing released
• Centcom: “heightened risk” from Iran
Photo of rockets that Trump tweeted is allegedly from pro Iran militias attack at US embassy area on Sunday.

This is all déjà vu. We saw a copy of this escalation in Dec 2019 that almost led to war. US claimed deterrence then. Iraq back in same situation today...
Where do we go from here? Depends:
-Kind of attacks in Iraq, rockets never stopped targeting Greenzone since Suleimani's killing
-US already evacuated lot of its embassy staff out of Baghdad embassy, withdrawing 500 troops

Full escalation in nobody's interest. Def not Iraq's..
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