
Donald Trump has been accused of hypocrisy for ordering the potentially inflammatory killing of a top Iranian general, after a series of tweets emerged from 2011 of him saying former president
Barack Obama would start a war with
Iran in order to get re-elected.The killing of Qassem Soleimani, Tehran’s top military commander in
Iraq, has sparked warnings from former
diplomats and the international community, and is being described as the biggest escalation of tensions in the region for years.