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Petraeus Says Trump May Have Helped ‘Reestablish Deterrence’ by Killing Suleimani

The former U.S. commander and CIA director says Iran’s “very fragile” situation may limit its response.

Gen. David Petraeus
Gen. David Petraeus
Gen. David Petraeus speaks in New Windsor, New York, on June 25, 2010. Spencer Platt/Getty Images

As a former commander of U.S. forces in Iraq and Afghanistan and a former CIA director, retired Gen. David Petraeus is keenly familiar with Qassem Suleimani, the powerful chief of Iran’s Quds Force, who was killed in a U.S. airstrike in Baghdad Friday morning.

Lara Seligman is a staff writer at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @laraseligman

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