This article presents the events that took place in the Middle East in January 2020, which more or less directly resulted from the American assassination of General Qassem Soleimani and the downing of a Ukrainian airline plane by the Iranian armed forces in a maximally synthetic way. The article presents a number of comments by journalists dealing with the subject, as well as statements by politicians and scientifc experts, which, according to the author, are able to paint a picture of past events on many different levels.
