Iran: how bad is it?

Beyond Today

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🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Millions of Iranians have flocked to the funeral of their top commander who was killed in a US drone strike at the weekend. The killing of Qasem Soleimani has raised fears of a conflict between the US and Iran and the hashtag World War Three has been trending. We speak to the BBC’s Rana Rahimpour who covers Iran for the Persian Service. We also caught up with the BBC’s Middle East Editor Jeremy Bowen in the region who told us about the wider implications. Presenter: Matthew Price Producers: Rory Galloway and Philly Beaumont Mixed by: Emma Crowe and Nicolas Raufast Editor: Philly Beaumont.

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0:00.0	BBC Sounds, music radio podcasts.
0:06.0	Hello, I'm Matthew Price.
0:07.7	This is Beyond Today from BBC Radio 4,
0:10.3	a space to ask one big question about one big story.
0:14.0	Today, Iran. how bad is it?
0:25.0	The crowd is it?
0:27.0	The crowd is it? The crowds have been massive. A lot of them are holding pictures of an older man with smart gray white hair.
0:45.0	He's got a tightly trimmed beard.
0:50.0	In Parliament, the MPs have been chanting, death to America, death to Trump.
0:55.0	And they're all mourning an Iranian general who was killed in a US drone strike.
1:03.6	Last night of my direction, the United States military successfully
1:08.5	executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world,
1:15.8	Kossam Salimani.
1:17.6	And that death, the death of Sulemani, a big military figure in Iran,
1:22.4	kicked off a hashtag
1:24.0	World War 3.
1:26.0	Now the US, as you heard, says he was a terrorist.
1:30.0	President Trump said that he ordered the strike because
1:32.7	Sulemani was an imminent threat.
1:35.2	But in Iran, a lot of people saw him as a hero,
1:39.1	a man really close to the country's supreme religious leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
1:44.6	And he has promised to avenge the death.
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