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Used as Iran's powerful regional-policy commander and Saudi Arabia's greatest threat.
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Qasem Soleimani
Used as Iran's powerful regional-policy commander and Saudi Arabia's greatest threat.
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The speaker says Qasem Soleimani was the second most powerful man in Iran after the supreme leader and was responsible for Iran's Iraq, Syria, and Yemen policies, making him Saudi Arabia's public enemy number one.
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The speaker says George W. Bush and Barack Obama both had opportunities to assassinate Soleimani but declined because they believed it could cause World War III.
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The speaker argues that Trump chose the Pentagon's catastrophic 'option three' by assassinating Qasem Soleimani.
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"man named Qassam Soleimani who is considered to be the second most powerful man in Iran after the assassination of Ayatollah, the supreme religious..."
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"So, MBS was looking very good. But then, in 2018, he did something that scared the world. Okay? MBS had, was a visionary. He..."
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"...three. Let's blow up the world, guys. And so, they assassinated Qasem Soleimani, okay? So, in other words, it is very likely that if..."
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"...is that in January 2020, Trump ordered the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, who is the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, okay? So..."
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"...okay? And this follows the killing, the assassination of their general, Qasem Soleimani, in 2020, right? This is when the Americans launched a drone..."
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A source-grounded reading of the episode's central claim: Saudi Arabia's rivalry with Iran moved from religion and oil into proxy war, exposed the kingdom's fragile infrastructure, and made a Trump-led America the weapon Saudi...
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