President Trump’s decision to kill Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani came just months after he canceled a strike that would have punished the downing of an American drone.
“We might have entered the phase where they pushed to the point the U.S. had to respond,” a senior Western diplomat stationed in the Middle East told the Washington Examiner.
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