World poised on post-Soleimani knife-edge. Possible off-ramp emerges?

Mourners at Soleimani’s funeral in Tehran, January 6

With the decision he made late January 2 to kill the head of the Iranian “Qods Force”, Lt.-Gen Qasem al-Soleimani, Pres. Donald Trump set the United States on a course to an upheaval- certainly political and possibly also military- of truly global impact. The first reverberations of the heightened U.S.-Iran tensions have already been felt in the international oil market…