Targeting Iran

Jeremy Scahill moderates a discussion on the Iran crisis with columnist Mehdi Hasan, reporter Murtaza Hussain, and editors Vanessa Gezari and Ali Gharib.

The Intercept’s Mehdi Hasan, Murtaza Hussain, Vanessa Gezari, and Ali Gharib are this week’s guests.

The operation targeted Abdul Reza Shahlai, commander of the Yemen division of Iran’s elite Quds Force, near the Yemeni capital Sana’a.

A chorus of talking heads celebrated Trump’s killing of an Iranian leader. Few of them disclosed their ties to defense contractors.

But the measure includes an exception for situations when military force is “necessary and appropriate to defend against an imminent attack” on Americans.

Why is the media hounding Democrats who accurately call the killing of a general from a nation the United States has not declared war on an assassination?

The drone strike that killed the Iranian general is the legacy of two decades of secret legal opinions aimed at circumventing the U.S. assassination ban.

Members on both sides of the aisle were unimpressed with classified briefings and disputed the Trump administration’s legal rationale for the assassination.

No. 1: The president didn’t have a clue who Qassim Suleimani was just a few years ago.

Since 2016, the U.S. government-funded news outlet has turned to “blatant propaganda” designed to promote regime change in Iran.