Do you think WWIII might happen soon?

Suleimani was indeed a nasty piece of work who had a lot of blood on his hands, and the regime in Iran he worked for is horrible in many ways, not least because of what the religious fanatics in charge have inflicted on the people of Iran.

But it seems to me that taking out one person, no matter how powerful, often has only a marginal effect. If you accept the hypothesis of there being an infinite number of alternative universes, there will be many where Hitler was killed in the trenches of WWI. The history of such a world would undoubtedly be different to what we know, but the fundamental economic, political and cultural forces that led to the rise of Hitler and the Nazis would still exist, and in many of those alternative worlds there still would have been a global cataclysm a couple of decades after the end of WWI.

Over the years, the USA has been involved removing lots of people from power via assassination and less bloody ways. What's different about this event is that it was so in-your-face. Not only did the method of assassination mean there was zilch deniability about the USA's responsibility for taking out a senior member of another country's leadership, the President of the USA has been gloating about it like some Marvel-universe super villain.