Source: CRS
May 8 2020
By Kenneth Katzman (Specialist in Middle Eastern Affairs), Kathleen J. McInnis (Specialist in International Security), Clayton Thomas (Analyst in Middle Eastern Affairs)
"Since May 2019, U.S.-Iran tensions have heightened significantly, and evolved into conflict after
U.S. military forces killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and one of Iran’s most important military commanders, in
a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on January 3, 2020. The United States and Iran have appeared to be
on the brink of additional hostilities since, as attacks by Iran-backed groups on bases in Iraq
"Since May 2019, U.S.-Iran tensions have heightened significantly, and evolved into conflict after
U.S. military forces killed Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary
Guard Corps-Quds Force (IRGC-QF) and one of Iran’s most important military commanders, in
a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad on January 3, 2020. The United States and Iran have appeared to be
on the brink of additional hostilities since, as attacks by Iran-backed groups on bases in Iraq
inhabited by U.S. forces have continued."
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