The killing of Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) commander, Qasem Soleimani, brings the end of the mullahs' regional expansionism and warmongering closer at a critical moment in the region. In order to protect American lives, President Trump ordered the preemptive action of assassinating the symbol of Iran's regional power. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo further explained the reason behind this defensive action and the inevitability of assassinating Soleimani.
"The intelligence assessment made clear that no action – allowing Soleimani to continue his plotting and his planning, his terror campaign – created more risk than taking the action that we took last week," Pompeo said.
The fundamental pillars upon which the theocracy in Iran is established are the export of terrorism and domestic repression.
Secretary Pompeo's 12+1 demands for Iran has targeted one of these pillars. Amid mass anti-Iran protests in Iraq, it seems that the US has fathomed the urgency of forming a strategy to handle the IRGC based on its true nature.
Indeed the mullahs have got stuck between the devil and the deep blue sea. The regime needs to make up its broken hegemony for its ideological forces inside the country and regional proxies, particularly in Iraq.
Thus, the IRGC commanders have repeated the same old rhetoric of attacking US interests in the region. Predictably an defence adviser to the regime's Supreme Leader threatened to target the US military bases in the region.
Moreover the regime's proxies in Iraq, such as Kata'ib Hizballah, threaten to take revenge over the US airstrikes against the group in Iraq and Syria.
"The response for sure will be military and against military sites," IRGC Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan told CNN on Sunday.
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