World reacts to news of US drone strike ordered by Donald Trump on Iranian general Qassem Suleimani in Baghdad
Tom Fletcher, the UK’s former ambassador to Lebanon, has said Qassem Soleimani was a “much more powerful figure than Osama bin Laden or Baghdadi, where at the moment of their own deaths, their power was in decline”. Fletcher told the BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “His [Soleimani’s] was growing as it has been really since the US invasion of Iraq.” He added that it was “hard to overstate the potential impact of this moment”.
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