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Allies would be set ablaze irans foreign minister zarif says retaliation of or so the money is this will bring an end to the american presence in the middle east u. S. President donald trump says so the money had been planning a big attack on americans and more details will be revealed to cobra its only wednesday. We had tremendous information weve been following him for a long time and we followed his path for those 3 days and they were not good stops we didnt like where he was stopping they were not good stops we saved a lot of lives hes been called a monster and he was a monster and hes no longer a monster hes dead and thats a good thing for a lot of countries and he was planning a very big attack and a very bad attack for us and other people and we stopped him. Acid bag reports now from tehran on the days tragic events in iraq. This was the National District of news a family and friends people queue outside the hospital in the city of kut a man inside the injured finnick hospital beds and being treated in its kodos what had begun as a day with large numbers of people turning out to pay their respects to an assassinated commander ending with more death in the streets of his hometown several hours after the funeral of customs and the money began on Tuesday Morning there was a stampede among the crowds the procession turning into a crush and desperate efforts to save the lives of people where they felt. The small city unable to deal with the vast numbers that have converged on it rains from across the country had made their way to come on for what was supposed to be so the moneys final procession. I come here because i love general ceremony and theres have been i am a sunni from bandit a bass and we want to show that we are also here for him check he had a very Good Management this is something small i can do for general celeb money just to come here and even though hes not with us his philosophy continues so the money had requested to be buried in his home city alongside those that had died fighting in the iran iraq war during the 1980 s. He was killed in a u. S. Airstrike in iraq last friday and people are still calling for revenge. The head of irans revolutionary guard made this promise more jam im saying the final word 1st we will avenge harshly be certain be calm we are telling the enemy we will avenge if you respond we will burn that place you love and they themselves know where it is the politicians gathered in parliament declaring death to america no compromise no surrender and revenge. And voting to designate the pentagon and u. S. Forces terrorist organizations already here. All those who ordered as well as the. The traitors of this crime who are with the pentagon and the military accounted as terrorists for 4 days crowds have taken to the streets to honor and pay their respects to cost and so the money the tragic events of tuesday in kind of man have i did even more grief before iran decides to take its next move i said big al jazeera to her. But the pentagon says that it expects around to retaliate against the United States the fence secretary marquez for his call for the escalation but warned that the u. S. Is prepared to end any war with iran let me reiterate that the United States is not seeking a war with iran but we are prepared to finish one we are seeking a diplomatic solution but 1st this will require iran to deescalate it will require the regime to come to the table with a go a preventing further bloodshed. And it will require them to cease their malign activities throughout the region as ive said were open to having this discussion with them but were just as prepared to deliver a forceful response to defend our interests well john hendren joins me now from washington d. C. John weve heard from us a succession of u. S. Officials in the last few hours now often the president and some of his ministers on the set and speak with the same voice but what would you say overall is the administrations message right now. Well the trumpet ministration sent out its top Foreign Policy voices today they all seemed to have a coordinated message there were 2 points 1st that the u. S. Was justified in killing qassam sulaimani 2nd of all that that killing did not justify a retaliatory war by iran and all those officials said they expected iran to retaliate but not but they all also said that it did not justify war mike pompei also came out the secretary of state he said if you just look at the days ahead of that assess a nation there was an American Contractor who was killed in iraq at a base that was under rocket attack and pompei went on to say that he was planning other events saying if youre looking for imminent you need to look no further than the days that led up to the to the strike that was taken against sulaimani he went on to say its the right decision we got it right trump went on to elaborate about that but what they didnt do was offer a lot of evidence and on capitol hill this is a rare partisan split at a time of a potential military conflict where the democrats are saying the evidence that they have been shown and a few of them have been shown the evidence the administration was to was using to justify that assassination some of them say that that evidence was vague it was not specific and it didnt justify that killing now the Administration Says it will Show Congress as a larger group not just the few people who are allowed to see that intelligence more information on thursday but so far theres a partisan split democrats seem unconvinced by the president is clearly trying to get out this message the killing was justified and that the United States does not believe that iran would be justified in developing a military conflict with the u. S. On the basis of that killing they all say they expect retaliation so 100 with the latest from washington d. C. John thank you. Some of inch of ice who joins us live now from baghdad i suppose well talk about the funeral later of course of the other general who was killed in the funeral was today marked the mohan the but lets focus 1st on the letter from the pentagon that seemed to say that the u. S. Was going to pull its proof troops out of the country and then we had a straight denial from the president this will still seem very confusing to the Iraqi Government. Well barbara every time a u. S. Official comes to the podium it kind of raises more questions than. We have been hearing from u. S. Department of defense in the u. S. About that of state directly contradicting what the iraqi Prime Minister has been telling his cabinet and the people by large he has been saying that this letter was the official communication that he received there was a discrepancy in the english and arabic texts he sent it back and the amended that text and a few hours later they said it was a mistake but they havent said it officially hes only heard it on the media he also said that secretary of state my phone was question was that was still a monday carrying a Diplomatic Mission do you he asked reporters do you think he can ever do that and this is something that the iraqi Prime Minister has directly said he said to the parliament that cost him silly money came to iraq with a message between iraq and saudi arabia something that both countries had been working upon and he was due to meet him in a few hours so here is an era here is an american ally and partner in the fight against terrorism and i still who finds themselves at odds and im quite sure that the iraqi Prime Ministers office is going to be scratching their heads and how to reply to these officials who are directly contradicting their leader but today he made his point again as he met the cabinet ministers and said that only a way out is for foreign troops to leave and that is something that he has been making clear to World Leaders as well as the u. S. Ambassador. How he felt that. We have suggested to the parliament that the Foreign Forces should leave the country we dont have many other options all the assassinations are made people angry and people are saying we dont want these forces to stay in our country there was no reason no option to quieten the people and this shows safety except for this particular position i. E. Get the phone forces to leave the country. And some are today also saw the funeral. More what does that tell us about the support that there was this general in iraq and i guess also the reaction towards the u. S. Yes it has been happening in the southern part of the country but before i go there theres also a neat Little Development that has just come in now that some protesters in bus or. Rather have been injured as iran and iran protesters clashed it goes to show the divisions that exist there were some protesters who in syria who tried to stop the the funeral procession of the of the cajun where they wanted to commemorate and were the hundreds these are prodemocracy protesters who have been camping out in nasiriya for months now and this is something that you can see over and over again and again in baghdad and other places where anti iran protesters who have been trying to move this country to words democracy and Anti Corruption driver who forced out the Prime Minister have been clashing with pro iran forces and this is something we saw in nasiriyah as the funeral procession in not just nasiriyah but other cities of this was under way he was the 2nd in charge of the. The the p. M. S. Which are the militias the group of militias that the shabby or the Popular Mobilization forces who are a group of militias which came together after the fight against i think he was something somebody who seemed to have be a cohesive figure who was pulling all of them together and now his body has made its way from all of the holy shrines here in iraq to iran and then back again into basra we were hearing a few minutes ago about his body now being. Has arrived in niger pretty is going to be his final resting place but again iraq in the wake of these assassination not just in the minute but the shabby as well has found itself again and in the thrust of its ethnic and sectarian divisions where people seem to be divided on whether they want an end to all foreign troops and all foreign influence that exists in iraq some of the the latest from baghdad of some us thank you meanwhile irans foreign minister has criticized the u. S. For refusing to issue his visa to attend the United NationsSecurity Council meeting in new york to visit refold ill just say right its a clear violation of the u. N. Travel agreement. Secretary pompei o caused the secretary general of the United Nations yesterday and said they didnt have time to. Consider my request and therefore they will not issue a research. That is a violation of the United States commitments the i mean if the u. S. If it takes. 25 days for the u. S. Bureaucracy to issue a visa for a foreign minister was visited the United States many times in the past 35 years then. Thats the word asian of the u. N. Charter headquarters agreement whitish and of u. S. Obligations but for a country that commits war crimes and crimes against humanity committing a technical violation of a u. N. Headquarters agreement is not important the question is what are they afraid of what do they think would happen if i go to new york. That thats a question that they need to answer but then think again theyre mistaken as secretary pump your thought that people were dancing in the streets of tehran and baghdad for their measure of generosity money and now he sees the sea of humanity turning go ahead do you think that i cannot communicate with the American People without coming to the United States where i can communicate with the American People sitting at my home iran will respond to because there was an act toward an act of war combined with an act of terrorism against a senior official of the stomach republic of iran and a citizen of iran and we are bound to protect our citizens and our military officials was an act that has to be. Reciprocated by by iran. Make the necessary deliberations and it will be an act that we will do not in a hurry not in a hasty man and but after necessary deliberation however the act by the United States had other elements and it enraged to feelings of many people outside iran inside iran and that will have consequences for the United States and i believe the most important consequence is that the days of the United States in this region are numbered. Well truce a parsi is executive vice Vice President of the Quincy Institute as think tank in washington d. C. And he joins us live now from there thank you so much for joining us we just heard the Iranian Foreign minister describe the killing of sulu money as an act of war a few hours ago we heard various voices from the u. S. Administration in court including President Trump effectively saying the u. S. Was justified in killing the money and that iran should an escalated to the level of a war i mean i suppose its still perhaps early days but do you think that iran really has either the capability or perhaps the will to escalate things to that level. Its also about whether the political circumstances into iran allows iran not to respond mindful of how provocative this was as the foreign minister said they view it as an act of war for me u. S. Officials have said on american t. V. That they view it as an act of war part of the reason why they decided not to do this when they were in power so its also about whether its an option for the iranians not to do it so i think there could be a scenario in which the ranias do something that they view as proportionate they try to send a signal to United States that is a proportional response to what the u. S. Did initially everyone should leave it at that but whether that is what the iranians intended for it to be there is not mean that that is how washington will read it moreover it may not be the way that washington would like to read it because right now it does appear that part of the reason why a trump suddenly has wanted to escalate matters with iran is because of domestic american politics and the way that this in his calculation perhaps can undermine the effort at impeachment although he was also the president too certainly during the campaign a couple years ago also said he was the one that was going to take american troops out of the of the region and though i guess he tried to any pulled out of syria now were seeing thousands of more troops go to the region so i suppose a contradiction there 5 days after the the original assassination what do you think the long term changes the impact of that act will be. Well one of the things that i worry about is that and enmity between the United States and iran that had in many ways become an entity between governments and there was really not much popular sentiment certainly not in amongst the iranian people against the United States that we will now enter an era in which on fortunately this and miti will not just be limited to politicians but actually spreads in society as well and it can be much more long lasting than i think ultimately that would be very bad for the United States and very bad for iran and very bad for the region but the region needs right now is dialogue and the escalation that is not what were seeing right now and assassinating in general certainly is not at the school of torey step as a trump in the situation as try to cast it if you say that the elements hell many people in the region is now directed at the u. S. Or the people not the governments then what impact does it have when we see the u. S. City of say that pretty much regardless of what the Iraqi Government tells them they will keep troops in the country what impact do you think that has i think its further angers the iraqi population and if we take a look at what happened in iraq over the course of the last 2 months we saw that there were a lot of protest against iranian influence in iraq that is not completely but shifted towards anger towards the United States and that anger is not coming to us from people who may have had some form of respect for soleimani its come from a lot of people who just weeks ago were protesting against the iranians because at the end of the day this was an assassination on iraqi soil outside of the Baghdad Airport without any consideration of what