As millions of Iranians poured on to the streets of Tehran to mourn the death of the military commander Qassem Soleimani, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, faced a difficult question: how to satisfy the Islamic regime’s desire for revenge for the US killing, while avoiding a
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