Luca Trenta: Qassem Soleimani air strike is a dangerous escalation of US assassination policy

The US government's killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani is the latest and most dramatic development in the ongoing proxy conflict between the US and Iran, writes Luca Trenta.

The US government's killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force, the elite wing of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guards, in an air strike is the latest and most dramatic development in the ongoing proxy conflict between the US and Iran, writes Luca Trenta.

Much of that conflict has taken place on the territory of Iraq, including a recent attack on the US embassy compound.