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After the killing of General Soleimani, the planet has exploded in outrage, including some of Washington's allies. Even Israel has refused to back the U.S. in this particular case.
UNESCO (which the United States left after it recognized Palestine and after it refused to follow Washington's diktat), issued a statement, reported by RT:
"Meanwhile, UNESCO also told the US to stay away from Iran's cultural heritage, reminding Washington that it is party to treaties which explicitly prohibit the targeting of cultural sites during armed conflict."
But that is not all. It has not ended with Iran only.
Iraq, outraged that the murder of Iranian allies took place on its soil, and that some of its people were also killed in the attack, demanded the full withdrawal of U.S. military forces.
The reply from Trump:
"If they do ask us to leave, if we don't do it on a very friendly basis, we will charge them sanctions like they've never seen before, ever. We have a very extraordinarily expensive airbase that's there. It cost billions of dollars to build. Long before my time. We're not leaving unless they pay us back for it."
Now just think what has been happening: Iraq was starved and bombed, and hundreds of thousands have died as a result of the depleted uranium that was used in U.S. warheads. Then came the U.S. invasion of 2003. The country was thoroughly ruined. Once proud Iraq, with a very high human development index (UNDP) virtually collapsed, became a beggar. On top of that, terrorist groups were injected into its territory, as they were, into Syria.
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