World waits anxiously for Iranian response to Israel's killing of top general

The world is watching Iran. After Israel assassinated a senior commander in an embassy annexe in Damascus, the one thing every diplomat, general and politician from Tehran to Washington could agree on was that Iran would have to respond. There has been nearly two weeks of speculation about when, where and how, fanned by US intelligence reports that Iran or its proxies were preparing for strikes on Israel. On Saturday, days after Tehran said it could close the world's most important oil shipping route, the Strait of Hormuz, its Revolutionary Guards seized a cargo ship linked to Israel and took…