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Tensions fall between the US and Iran
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Recent less belligerent statements in Iran and the United States diminish tensions that at one time seemed the prelude to a war with unpredictable consequences for the Middle East and the world.

The Iranian authorities promised a blunt response to the murder of General Qassem Soleimani, perpetrated by US aviation, but it seems that his limited attack on two military bases in Iraq satisfies the desire for revenge.

Iran’s strategy in the exit of all US military bases

Chancellor Mohammad Javad Zarif signed on social networks that proportional measures in self-defense had been concluded. Meanwhile, Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatola Ali Khamenei, said the bombing of US positions does not imply the total response of the Islamic republic.

“They received a slap,” Khamenei said, and although those actions are insufficient for revenge (for the death of Soleimani), “more importantly, the corrupt presence of America began to come to an end.”

Trump says he is prepared for peace

Meanwhile, President Donald Trump, in campaign for his re-election, reiterated his promise to avoid an endless war and that the United States is ready to embrace the peace that everyone seeks.

In this way the tone of the Republican tycoon changed that in a previous intervention he stressed that ‘if Iran does something it should not be doing, it will suffer the consequences, and with great force’.

He also pointed out that he will not allow Iran to possess a nuclear weapon and with his philosophy of maximum pressure, he returned to the negotiations without touching the missile projects or the influence of Tehran in the region.

Iran reiterates the peaceful nature of its nuclear program

The authorities of the Persian country ratified a lot of times the peaceful nature of their atomic fission program, although in recent days they announced that they would breach the limits of the agreement sealed in 2015 implemented to prevent it from manufacturing such weapons. Soleimani’s death on January 2 in Baghdad in a drone attack caused cries of revenge and attracted crowds to the streets to mourn him.

In response, the Iranians fired a total of 15 missiles, 10 hit the US base of Ain al-Assad, Anbar province, and one, in Erbil, capital of the Iraqi autonomous region of Kurdistan.

Pentagon technicians stated that the alert systems detected the launches and alarms sounded that they had time to take refuge.

The US authorities were aware of the preparations for an Iranian retaliation, although they never clarified whether Intelligence had identified the objectives.

Ain al-Assad premiered his duties after the US-led invasion in 2003 that overthrew Saddam Hussein and later welcomed US troops in the fight against the Islamic State terrorist group.

Its facilities house some 1,500 US military and a coalition comprising representatives from another 30 countries.

Russia and Turkey make efforts to preserve peace in the Middle East

Trump visited her in December 2018 without notifying the Iraqi authorities that they censored that attitude of the president and in the same conditions last November was done by Vice President Mike Pence, who went through Ain al-Assad and then Erbil.

The effort to reduce the Tehran-Washington conflict also involved Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his Russian peer Vladimir Putin.

Erdogan and Putin issued a joint statement on security in the Middle East, in which they warned that the additional use of force ‘would lead to a new cycle of instability and eventually damage everyone’s interests’.

No one is interested in that conflict and its main actors either, according to the perception of the observers.

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