Iran has taken a step that could prove more troubling than Iraq’s
FROM BAGHDAD airport, where an American air strike killed him, to his hometown of Kerman, about 1,300 kilometres away in Iran, hundreds of thousands of people filed into the streets to mourn General Qassem Suleimani on January 5th. They came out in Baghdad and Tehran, and the Shia holy cities of Najaf and Karbala. Top officials in both countries joined the crowds of people beating their chests for Iran’s most prominent commander.
Last summer, in response to tightening American sanctions, Iran breached the deal’s limits on the quantity and purity of uranium it is allowed to keep. Now Iran says it will ignore caps on the number of centrifuges it is allowed to spin, essentially removing all limits on enrichment. But the move is “calibrated to be reversible”, says Wendy Sherman, a former State Department official who helped negotiate the deal.
Away from the cameras, though, Iranians argued over how to remember Suleimani. Officially he was the commander of the Quds Force, the foreign legion of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps . But he leapfrogged the IRGC’s chain of command, reporting directly to the supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He was said to be Mr Khamenei’s most trusted adviser.
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