Fallout from the US killing of Qasem Soleimani
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and President Hassan Rouhani pray near the coffins of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani, head of the elite Quds Force, and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, who were killed in an airstrike at Baghdad airport, in Tehran, Iran, Jan. 6, 2020.
What was the Trump administration’s rationale for the targeted killing of Qasem Soleimani, the second most powerful figure in Iran? And, what’s left of the international agreement that controlled Iran’s nuclear program? The World’s Shirin Jaafari has the latest. Also, an update on the Australian wildfires and the devastating impacts they’re having on wildlife there. Plus, pop star Miley Cyrus has settled a $300 million copyright infringement lawsuit by Jamaican songwriter Michael May, aka Flourgon, over a line that she allegedly ripped off of his 1988 track “We Run Things.”
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