Robert Malley: ‘Americans Are Less Safe Today than They Were Before Qasem Soleimani Was Killed’

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MALLEY: “Well, that’s right. I think in response to the previous question, of course Americans are less safe today than they were before Qasem Soleimani was killed. In fact, they're less safe today than before the Trump Administration took office, a series of decisions from walking away from the nuclear deal to imposing maximum sanctions and now killing Qasem Soleimani. All of those have made the lives of Americans certainly in the region more at risk than they were before. Who knows how Iran will respond. They have a number of possible targets, they could respond now or they could wait. They could respond directly or they could have one of their proxies take action, and they can respond militarily or through cyber attack or on the nuclear front. And I would just say so far Iran has not fully withdrawn from the deal. I think that’s an exaggeration. They've said that they don’t feel bound by its constraints, but they have not yet said that they’re going to take the kind of actions that would really raise alarm bells. So they still have some room to maneuver, but all of these are potentialities that the U.S. has to be worried about.”