Iran is most likely not going to retaliate in the wake of the assassination of top nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh ahead of President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration, so as not to jeopardize the chance of sanctions relief, according to US Special Envoy for Iran Elliott Abrams.
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"If they [Iran] want sanctions relief, they know that they're going to need to enter some kind of negotiation after January 20, and it's got to be in their minds that they don't want to undertake any activities between now and Jan 20 that make sanctions relief harder to get," he said.
