We have had the ability to kill Soleimani many times. We never did, not even during the terrible years in Iraq.
You underestimate how big he was in Iran. This will unify the country against us - all sides, reformers and hardliners. No deal - the thing Trump has always said was the point of the “maximum pressure” campaign - is possible now.
It won’t be a conventional war, with an assault on Tehran. But many people are going to die.
That’s reality.