Analyst: Both U.S. and Iran don't want war
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Iran's top general Qasem Soleimani was killed on Friday in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad airport. Iranian President Hassan Rouhani reacted saying the U.S. will pay a price. But what was the motivation for the U.S. to carry out this killing? CGTN caught up with Edmund Ghareeb, Middle East analyst and scholar at American University in Washington, for an insight.