About Franz Ferdinand


Franz Ferdinand are a Scottish rock band formed in Glasgow in 2002. The band's original lineup was composed of Alex Kapranos, Nick McCarthy, Bob Hardy, and Paul Thomson. Julian Corrie and Dino Bardot joined the band in 2017 after McCarthy left during the previous year.

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... Rudolf Franz Ferdinand Höss had joined the Nazi Party in the early 1920s and later became an SS officer, working at a concentration camp at Dachau, before transferring to Auschwitz, which he ran until 1943...

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... Coming second on the BBC Sound of 2020 in addition to the previous years, the runners-up , such as Frank Ocean, James Blake, Franz Ferdinand, and Rag N Bone Man...

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Franz Ferdinand and #WWIII: Why tend to be these words?
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... Next to his name, phrases such as Franz Ferdinand and the third world war, trend analyses have been plenty of mentions for the man who ordered the strike - President Donald Trump...

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Franz Ferdinand and #WWIII: Why tend to be these words?

Feb 16,2020 3:42 am

after the death of Iran's top military leaders, there is a lot of speculation about what could happen.

General Qasem Soleimani was.

It escalated between Iran and the United States.

Next to his name, phrases such as Franz Ferdinand and the third World War , trend analyses have been plenty of mentions for The Man who ordered The Strike - President Donald Trump .

So here is a quick guide to what's trending and why:

#Soleimani is - who was he?

Qasem Soleimani was sometimes touted as a future President of Iran, but in many ways his position was even stronger.

As the leader of an elite unit of the Bundeswehr, he was responsible for the growing Iranian influence throughout the Middle East .

He led military operations In Syria , Lebanon and Iraq. He was a very influential figure in the foreign country, and with almost rock-star status among the many people in his Home Country .

But, who has called US, The Commander and his military force of "terrorists" and hold them responsible for the deaths of hundreds of US personnel.

has caused His death, a huge rage in Iran, and worry about what could happen.

#Franz Ferdinand Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo, 27. In June 1914, The Day before he was shot Dead

no, this has nothing to do with the Scottish Rock Band .

a Lot of Parallels drawn between the death of General Soleimani, and to kill others, in front of 105 years.

in 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his Wife in Sarajevo, Bosnia, was shot In June.

He was The Heir to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

He was murdered by an 18-year-old Bosnian activist, was angry that the Land had been taken over by The Archduke Empire.

after The Shooting , prompting the country to take party, and it started a chain of events led to the first World War .

#trump

President trump was, broke The Strike ordered, and he tweeted a picture of the US flag a short time after the message.

It led to a lot of chatter online, with some of his recent tweets.

Back in 2011, he claimed President Obama, "you start A War with Iran," itself re-elected.

With a U.S. presidential election coming later this year, many commentators find the timing of this drone Strike is significant.

But the BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner points out, it was a provocation.

"to storm A few days ago, a huge mob in Baghdad, the U.S. Embassy tried. And that was the whipped cream, until the leaders of the militias, supported by Iran.

"It was a risk, if you have not been driven back by US Marines with tear gas, that she might even have, in fact, on the U. S. Embassy. "

#WWIII

Given the obvious Parallels with Sarajevo in 1914 - a single blow to the boiling point, could happen to existing tensions, there is a lot of speculation about what.

"Iran is retaliation, certainly, for this. You have already vowed revenge, and they will do it in their time of choice," says Frank.

"It's a pretty tense time. You declared Three Days of mourning, there are huge people are as the quantities of "death to America" and probably the death for us, UK. "

So where could be the revenge? In The West , or on Western targets in Iraq or in other parts of the region?

Frank believes that if there is retaliation, the latter option is The Most likely.

"we hope it doesn't happen at all, but if it happens, it is most likely to occur in the region.

"they [Iran] have a very sophisticated Car Bomb technology. You also have drone technology. And I think if you start killing US soldiers in the region, is a Red Line for the presidency trump, and he will escalate to more things, even more so. "

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Source of news: bbc.com

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