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Business Matters: What will Iran do next?

Iranian Revolutionary Guard

07/01/2020 GMT

What will Iran do next?

BBC World Service - Business Matters, What will Iran do next?

Iran has vowed "severe revenge" for the death of General Qasim Soleimani

General Qasim Soleimani was assassinated in a US drone strike in Iraq on Friday on the orders of President Donald Trump.

The NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said members were united in their concerns about what he called Iran's destabilising operations in the region and in their resolve that Iran should never acquire nuclear weapons. But he said it was a US, not a NATO, decision to kill the senior Iranian general Qasim Soleimani in Iraq last week. After Iranian threats of retaliation, the world awaits who will make the next move? Meanwhile, South African entrepreneur Richard Maponya has died, aged 99. We look back on this retail titan, known as the 'Father of Black Business'. Plus a moment of gratitude for Office Boys in Indonesian offices by workplace commentator Asmara Wreksono.

And joining us throughout the programme are Rachel Cartland, author, writer and expert on Hong Kong and Houston based Tony Nash, chief economist at Complete Intelligence.

(Picture: Iran's Revolutionary Guard. Picture Credit: AFP Photo/ Ho/ Iranian Presidency)

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