Threat of destruction of cultural sites in Iran

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Over the weekend, US President Donald Trump vowed to target Iranian cultural sites if the country retaliated against Iranian Gen.l Qasem Soleimani’s assassination. Oona Hathaway, a professor of international law at Yale University, tells host Marco Werman that this would violate international law. 

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