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What happened when Iran fired back?

World War 3 hasn’t happened… yet.

After the US killed one of Iran’s senior generals in a drone strike some people were worried we were on the brink of World War 3. Iran threatened revenge, and fired on a US air base in Iraq. But in doing so it made a colossal mistake, downing a commercial aircraft and killing the 176 passengers and crew on board.

The 91Èȱ¬â€™s Middle East correspondent Quentin Sommerville, who has just returned from the Al Asad air base in Iraq, and the 91Èȱ¬ Persian Service’s Rana Rahimpour join us to explain how Iran’s strike has had consequences they weren’t expecting.

Presenter: Matthew Price
Producer: Harriet Noble
Mixed by Emma Crowe
Editor: Philly Beaumont

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