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Today, Explained

The view from Iran

Today, Explained

Vox

Daily News, Politics, News

4.49.5K Ratings

🗓️ 7 January 2020

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Iran analyst Dina Esfandiary explains why the killing of Qassem Soleimani was “the greatest gift the Trump administration could have given the Iranian government.” And an Iranian-American family disagrees on the meaning of Soleimani’s death. (Transcript here.) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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But the Iranian version of that has been happening for days now.

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In fact, so many people won the streets of General Salamanis hometown

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in Southeastern Iran today that there was a stampede.

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