Iran surrounded by dozens of US bases as tension grows

ANKARA

With Iran surrounded by dozens of U.S. military bases and nearly 65,000 American troops, uncertainty prevails on whether Washington’s killing of a top Iranian general will provoke an all-out war between the two nations.

The death of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) Quds Force commander, Major General Qasem Soleimani, at the hand of a U.S. drone strike marked a dramatic escalation in tensions between the U.S. and Iran — which have long been at a fever pitch since U.S. President Donald Trump chose in 2018 to unilaterally withdraw Washington from a 2015 nuclear pact between world powers and

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