Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Welcome to hardtalk, im stephen sackur. Americas assassination of one of irans top generals, Qasem Soleimani, has bred new fears of war across the middle east. The key protagonists are in washington and tehran, the main stage for the conflict may well be iraqi. He was assassinated in baghdad. Iraq is under intense pressure to pick sides. My guest is ayad allawi who was the countrys Vice President twice. Does the Current Crisis spell disaster . Ayad allawi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me on the show. We talk to you in the wake of the dramatic events that include of course, the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. Did you see it coming . I saw things escalating in fact, and i saw very clearly that there was serious threats from the United States, based on what has happened to some of their bases in iraq, and what has happened to the embassy. The siege of the embassy, the american embassy, but we didnt expect of course, this kind
Now on bbc news, its time for hadtalk. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Americas assassination of one of irans top generals, Qasem Soleimani, has bred new fears of war across the middle east. The key protagonists are in washington and tehran, but the main stage for the conflict may well be iraqi. Soleimani was assassinated in baghdad. Iraq is under intense pressure to pick sides. My guest today is ayad allawi who was the countrys Vice President twice. Does the Current Crisis spell disasterfor iraq . Ayad allawi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me on the show. Well, we talk to you in the wake of the dramatic events that include of course, the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. Did you see it coming . Well, i saw things escalating in fact, and i saw very clearly that there was serious threats from the United States, based on what has happened to some of their bases in iraq, and what has happened to the embassy. The siege of the embassy, the american e
Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Americas assassination of one of irans top generals, Qasem Soleimani, has bred new fears of war across the middle east. The key protagonists are in washington and tehran, the main stage for the conflict may well be iraqi. He was assassinated in baghdad. Iraq is under intense pressure to pick sides. My guest is ayad allawi who was the countrys Vice President twice. Does the Current Crisis spell disaster . Ayad allawi, welcome to hardtalk. Thank you very much. Thank you for having me on the show. We talk to you in the wake of the dramatic events that include of course, the assassination of Qasem Soleimani. Did you see it coming . I saw things escalating in fact, and i saw very clearly that there was serious threats from the United States, based on what has happened to some of their bases in iraq, and what has happened to the embassy. The siege of the embassy, the american embassy, but we didnt expect of course, this kind of thing to go undiscussed
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