India, Jan. 7 -- If the Iranians played the game the same way that the American President Donald Trump does, then their revenge for the American assassination of Iran's leading general, Qassem Soleimani, would be a simple tit-for-tat. Just kill United States (US) Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, the man who actually organised the hit and then boasted about it.
If Pompeo was too hard to get at, the Iranians could get even by murdering any one or two of a hundred other senior US officials. Probably two, because the US drone that hit Soleimani's car coming out of Baghdad airport also killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the leader of Kata'ib Hezbollah, the most powerful pro-Iranian militia in Iraq.
An eye for an eye, and so forth. Tit-for-tat is cle...