What key event in 2020 significantly escalated tensions between the US and Iran?
Quiz Options
- The assassination of Qasem Soleimani
- The US withdrawal from the JCPOA
- The downing of a US drone by Iran
- Iran's nuclear enrichment program reaching critical levels
Explanation
In January 2020, a US airstrike near Baghdad International Airport killed Iranian Major General Qasem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.