(Bloomberg) — North Atlantic Treaty Organization Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg refused to speculate about whether the alliance would trigger its mutual-defense clause were Iran to strike American targets in response to the U.S. killing of a top Iranian military commander.Any comments on the matter would “not help to de-escalate,” Stoltenberg said in response to a question at a press conference on Monday in Brussels after NATO suspended an anti-terrorist training mission in Iraq as a result of heightened security risks. “It will actually do the opposite.”U.S. President Donald Trump ordered the killing last week of Qassem Soleimani, an Iranian general …read more
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