Iran's Zarif: We were close to war with US after Soleimani assassination

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said that the US and Iran "were very close to a war" in an interview with NBC on Friday on the sidelines of the 2020 Munich Security Conference. He explained that he thinks US President Donald Trump "was misled to believe that the United States would get away" with assassinating Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps Quds Force commander Qasem Soleimani. "It worked the other way around," Zarif claimed. "It was the beginning of the end of the...