Lawfare Archive: Law and the Soleimani Strike
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🗓️ 3 February 2024
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Summary
From January 6, 2020: On Friday, the Lawfare Podcast hosted a conversation on the wide-ranging policy implications of the U.S. strike that killed Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ leader Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Mohandes, deputy commander of Iraq’s quasi-official Popular Mobilization Forces and leader of the Iraqi militia and PMF Keta’ib Hezbollah.
Today’s special edition episode leaves the policy debate behind to zero-in on the law behind the strike. Law of war and international law experts Scott R. Anderson, Bobby Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Ashley Deeks and Samuel Moyn join Benjamin Wittes to discuss the domestic and international law surrounding the strike, how the administration might legally justify it, what the president might do next and how Congress might respond.
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| 0:46.0 | 2024. This past week tensions between the US and Iran have been escalating |
| 0:51.0 | due to a recent drone attack on a US military base in Jordan |
| 0:54.8 | where three soldiers were killed and 40 others were injured. This attack is the |
| 0:58.8 | latest in a series of back-and-forth military actions between the US and Iran-backed groups since the October 7th |
| 1:05.5 | Hamas attack on Israel. |
| 1:07.3 | For today's archive episode, I picked an episode from January 6, 2020, in which Benjamin Wittis sat down with Scott R Anderson, Bobby |
| 1:16.2 | Chesney, Jack Goldsmith, Ashley Deeks, and Samuel Moyne to discuss the U.S. strike that |
| 1:21.6 | killed Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard core leader, |
| 1:24.7 | Kasem Solomani, the legal and policy implications of the strike, and more. I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast, |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the Law Fair Podcast January 6th, 2020. It's another special emergency edition on Friday. We did a special |
| 1:49.4 | edition on the Kasam-Sulami strike, its implications for the broader Middle East and for U.S. |
| 1:56.4 | Iranian conflict and relations. |
| 1:59.4 | Today we're just talking law. |
| 2:02.1 | My voice is gone, but I'm here. We have in the jungle studio, Scott Anderson of Brookings and Law Fair and joining us remotely from far-flung corners on a skype Line are Jack Goldsmith, |
| 2:17.8 | joining us from Cambridge, Massachusetts, Sam Moyne joining us from Yale Law School, Ashley Deeks, joining us from University of Virginia |
| 2:29.0 | law school in Charlottesville, Virginia, and of course, the one the only Bobby Chesney joining us from the University of Texas at Austin. |
| 2:38.0 | Thanks to you all for coming on. |
| 2:41.0 | Bobby, I want to start with you. |
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