An Al Jazeera presenter said that President Trump may have triggered a third world war by issuing the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Mehdi Hasan, who is British but based in Washington, D.C., wrote in the Intercept warning that Trump “may have kicked off World War III” by ordering the drone strike on Soleimani following weeks of escalating tensions following the death of an American contractor and an attack on the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

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