The U.S. has to move into a “more preventive mode” following the assassination of a Minnesota politician and Iran “having lost the war with Israel or losing the war with Israel” as Tehran “is going to move toward political assassinations,” Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law professor emeritus,  told Newsmax.

“What we have to worry about are not only copycat, but more and more and more political assassinations,” Dershowitz said Monday during an appearance on Newsmax’s “Newsline,” hours after police arrested a man suspected of killing one Minnesota lawmaker and wounding another.

“I think that Iran, having lost the war with Israel or losing the war with Israel, is going to move toward political assassinations, which they’ve done in the past in the United States, all over the world. And so, we have to move into a more preventive mode. It’s not good enough to react to these assassinations,” he added.

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