Former U.S. Ambassador to UN Samantha Power, on Iran: 'This is likely to get ugly very quickly' via YahooFinance
In response to a U.S. missile strike on Thursday that killed top Iranian intelligence commander Qassem Soleimani, sharply escalating tensions between the two countries, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power warned the attack could have catastrophic consequences. “A flag is not a strategy,” she added, in reference to an image of the American flag posted on Twitter by President Donald Trump on Thursday prior to a statement about the strike from the Pentagon.
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, promised retaliation and called for three days of national mourning. “There's plenty to talk to Iran about, and to condemn Iran for,” Power told Yahoo Finance Editor-in-Chief Andy Serwer. “But to go from 0 to 60, to have Trump and Rouhani meet, as happened in North Korea, as we saw in North Korea, when you haven't done the legwork, when you haven't done the preparation, when you don't know why you're there other than to be able to tweet a photo of having been there, that is not a recipe for foreign policy success.
“I think the Trump administration has a perception, whether they're dealing with Iran, or China, or any of these ancient cultures, that have a history, and a pride, and a philosophy of their position in the world, which may not accord to our view of their position in the world, but that they're not going to just back down because we say, ‘boo,’” she said.
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