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Was US killing of Qassem Soleimani a strategic error?

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A man holds a picture of late Iranian Major-General Qassem Soleimani, as people in Teheran celebrate in the street after Iran launched missiles at US-led forces in Iraq, on Jan 8, 2020.

PHOTO: REUTERS

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WASHINGTON - Few in the United States are mourning Qassem Soleimani, the feared commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' Quds Force, who had extended Iran's often lethal tentacles across a swathe of the Middle East and beyond.
But many are worrying about what it may have unleashed.
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