On the night of January 2 to 3, the President ordered the killing of the influential Iranian official Qassem Soleimani in an air strike in Baghdad, Iraq. Considered number 2 of the Iranian regime, Soleimani was seen as a feared adversary of the United States.
This strike is "a declaration of war" analyzes Pascal Boniface, director of the Institute of International and Strategic Relations (IRIS). The repercussions could be numerous in the region, to the point that the researcher wonders "Donald Trump probably did not calculate the consequences of this death"