September 23, 2022
An article in The Atlantic magazine by staff writer Graeme Wood said the Trump Administration sent a message to Iran after killing Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleymani in 2020 that said, as Wood summarized it, “The killing of Soleymani is an isolated event. It is not the start of a new campaign. But if you retaliate and retaliation is defined as harming even one US citizen anywhere we will hit you back harder than you hit us. You will lose every round. Your only decision is how many rounds we go and how badly you want to be humiliated.”