This is Jack of an radio.

I'm Susie Wiseman.

On this episode we look at the likely impact of the Solemni assassination in both Iran and Iraq.

We begin with University of Michigan Professor Juan Cole, who's the chief editor of informed comment.

He joins us to examine the decision by President Trump to launch the strike that killed

Iranian General Kasim Solimani,

escalating the standoff with Iran

to a new level of violence that could trigger a much broader

and more lethal direct conflict.

We get Juan's views on the ramifications for U.S. Iranian relations, the domestic

considerations for each regime, and the wider implications at home, and in the Middle East.

We then continue with

Youssef Baker of Cal State University, Long Beach,

who works on the political economy of the American

invasion and occupation of Iraq,

as well as the broader war on terror.

He's been writing about the Iraqi protest movement

and says the American attacks and Trump's assassination of

General Solemnine has fanned the escalating regional conflict and is a death blow

to the Iraqi protests.

Iraqis have been pushed into the eye of the storm and every Iraqi political force has now

to pick aside with deadly consequences.

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