Attacks are in retaliation iran says for the killing of general qassam so the money who is finally being laid to rest these pictures from come on in iran about a 1000 kilometers south of the capital tehran. Room of the events of yesterday with upwards of 40 people were killed in a stampede at the funeral after a 3 day mourning period a 3 day funeral procession period and now. I would believe that is the cost get there that people are praying of and putting flowers on and this would be the final resting place eventually in come on the Early Morning its about 7 am a little bit after 7 am in iran at the moment just a reminder everything were seeing certainly in the iranians point of view is coming back to this the killing of general tsunami some more analysis now face a list about the who is a former iraqi ambassador to the United States who spoke to us earlier he says he fears iran and the u. S. Are unwilling at this stage and this is building a what candy was saying to engage in the diplomacy required to deescalate tension. From a legal perspective the United States and iran certainly are a war they have have been sort of in a proxy war the term proxy now has to be removed now politically diplomatically that doesnt mean that we are fated or to have a general war between the 2 of there would of necessity be an asymmetric one between iran and the United States this does not mean that there cannot be as they say off from the both sides have to be willing to engage in diplomacy and right now i fear that i do not see that i do not see either side the iranian or the american willing to do the things necessary to engage in diplomacy apparently the iraqi Prime Minister was trying to play the role of an intermediary before all of this between saudi arabia and iran since these events have taken place some of the gulf states have tried to enter mediate between the United States and iran one or the other or both parties are going to need to take advantage of those opportunities to take us off what is a very dangerous escalation for the region for everyone of the region its a little after 6 30 am now in baghdad 7 in teheran and 10 30 pm in washington d. C. On Canal Santamaria continuing coverage here on aljazeera of developments out of the gulf this wednesday this is whats happened irans launch more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles at joint u. S. Erakat facilities in iraq 2 bases targeted at least one of them an air bale in the north the up as the. Base in Anbar Province and in addition irans revolutionary guard has issued a warning to israel and to other u. S. Allies in the region saying they will be attacked if their countries are used for strikes against teheran. And then on top of that the f. A. A. That is the Us Federal Aviation Authority has now banned u. S. Airlines from flying over this area this means a space in iraq thats Donald Trumps tweet from earlier will come back to that little bit later but were talking about airspace in iraq iran the gulf of oman and the waters between iran and saudi arabia which basically means the gulf itself it is sizing up the potential for miscalculation of misidentifications so this is flight right at 24. 00 i believe this was at 100 hours g. M. T. Witches 2 and a half hours ago now a lot of congestion you say sort of down to the bottom of the screen you see qatar there but United Arab Emirates these are big hubs which a lot of u. S. Airlines do fly into and for a cutter is ready as well you can or you remember that there is a blockade in place which means not flying over saudi arabia all the u. A. E. So any limitations over iraq and iran will. Tighten that bottleneck even further its such a busy part of the World Aviation wise this is come from the f. A. A. I should point out the u. S. Aviation authority for u. S. Carriers but we wait to see if it is extended beyond that in fact we heard from aviation analyst called a little bit earlier hes explaining why and what impact this will have have a listen. Basically means is the f. D. A. Is being proactive in protecting the airspace and ensuring that u. S. Based aircraft and aircraft flying over the region are safe because there are obviously there have been missiles launched listing missiles and theyre being very proactive here in ensuring safe operation of aircraft in the region in fact we have to keep in mind also that there are countermeasures so if its a Ballistic Missile is launched you know the opponents actually have defensive measures on the ground to try to intercept those missiles that are being launched and quite often those are seeking missiles so also if those are if an airliner is giving off the heat signature from its engines it could possibly interfere with the countermeasures whats intercepting the missile and in fact a commercial aircraft flying overhead and reading that would primarily affect i would think you know long range International Flights where you might have some kind of fuel constraints for a long haul flights but you know i think for for sure sure hope flights i think it pretty much will be business as usual for the most part but yet obviously there will be some lost time for. Some quite minor diversions as a result of this air airspace thing was my feeling is you know theres a lot of uncertainty now on if there is or if theres not going to be a reaction until the f. A. A. Is confident that everything is settled down as far as the possibility of any projectiles or or or any kind of arms going up into the air through the airspace when that risk is 100 percent eliminated i feel that the f. D. A. Will you know possibly well will lift the restriction on commercial aircraft as far as restrictions go im not aware of any typically no fly zones in the. Area where for example if security is less lax in a particular area based on you know a civil unrest or a conflict the state department will put out directives to u. S. Passengers were warning them. Of the particular activity that that that is happening such as civil unrest. Or or or any kind of oh you know war activity and that would be issued by usually the u. S. Department of state so thats just another layer if you like to add to things the fact that the u. S. Federal Aviation Authority is limiting airspace for u. S. Carriers in the gulf at the moment keep a close and that well check in with the flight read a 24 in a bit and see if there has been any sort of change particularly in the u. S. Carriers at the center of all this obviously is a conflict between the United States and iran the moment which is playing out in iraq were going to talk to us who is a senior fellow at the National IranianAmerican Council on scott from california thank you for your time. Central to this and i was talking to our correspondent about this before is whether you view this as retaliation or escalation iran is being very clear to say this is retaliation these rocket attacks are retaliation for the killing of general cause and so the money but its whether or not the United States and particularly dont trump chooses to view it as that. Absolutely and to give credit to president from credit is due to his reaction on twitter cool and quite different it seems to be restrained. There is a sort of reassuring tone though still very concerning to have to wait till the morning to hear what the United States intends to do and so have to wait until then to have a successful and full assessment and a full detail of what actually happened we have to be very careful not to jump to any conclusions there were earlier reports that there were 30 casualties now were saying there doesnt seem to be casualties so we dont have all the information to draw conclusions in terms of the iranian side and it would be you know why i think about iranian decisions not just in this situation that were seeing now but over the last year and a half since the United States pulled out of the Nuclear Deal Iran has taken very clear measured steps after that the United States with a nuclear deal and it seems as though this is another very carefully measured retaliation it was explicitly stated by your own score mr jevons that you that this was a retaliation that you dont does not suggest solution and does not seek war so well have the United States assessing the crisis of his retaliate and theres escalation and theres a 3rd prong which could be diplomacy do you see any room for diplomacy given the fact that jevons arrays cant get into the United States at the moment same seekonk get a visa and might pump a 0 even though he is technically the chief diplomat of the United States is probably not the most diplomatic player. Theres always room for diplomacy and thats because you can be with the United States in your own have done in the past is there a 3rd parties who can facilitate that diplomacy and unfortunately because of whats happened since the United States with iran those channels for diplomacy have been closed but theres always room for diplomacy before we get a conflict its very important to remind ourselves that this is not it will still conflict with the same thing that we went on ourselves just 5 days ago when the u. S. Assassination of us and so when he was carried out this is still not a full scale conflict and that has to be emphasized theres still a road critical to see to know the idea of diplomacy looking at what you want announced at in terms of the d. C. P. A way iran did not quit the d. C. P. Away they the decision that they made to reduce their last limitation was something that they decided before the assassination of so long so this was again a series of steps that iran had planned to take specifically in their statement they said that if sanctions were lifted and all parties are trying to do it they would return as well so that means the framework of the deal is still in place and that deal is emblematic of diplomacy. Who can play that diplomatic role i believe ive read in the pos that switzerlands been involved the classic neutral player who else is got some leverage with either sagal but sides at the moment. You know all along has played a role as mediator in the past you have japan has tried to play a rule the french president has tried to play a role at this point really any party that in unity can clean the 2 sides should intervene because whatever conflict whatever escalation could occur is not something that will be isolated to iran and the United States of course Everybody Knows that it will have extreme will back within the region itself but the consequences go further than this is really an issue of Global Impact and so we need those parties to intervene. Assad ra joining us from california shes with the National IranianAmerican Council great to talk to you thank you and. So were talking about the possibility for diplomacy there but clearly there is military action 1st and foremost in the moment and earlier the pentagon said it expected iran to retaliate against the United States though secretary defense marcus was calling for deescalation he warns 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 the goal of 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 we are just as prepared to deliver a forceful response to defend our interests earlier we heard from mark kimmitt who is a former assistant secretary for Political Military Affairs that was out of the george w. Bush administration he gave us some insight into how the u. S. Government will be responding to these attacks. I think theyre sitting in the situation room right now theyll also have the cia director in there theyll have a couple of other key policy making people inside there and theyre deciding what to do right now in terms of the response of course will 1st want to hear from the commanders on the ground theyll have those people on a. V. P. See inside of there and theyre going to ask for everybodys opinion and then the president will make the decision i would suspect their options could well be a air strike against those facilities that fired the missiles. I think that would be the most probable they may do some other additional targets such as im speculating now some of the speedboats in the persian gulf some of the other military facilities where they may have been training some of the proxies inside of iraq but you can be sure that the target packages that need to be developed for these kind of operations have have already been completed and have been sitting on the shelf for quite some time now but what i find interesting is that there doesnt seem to be any hue and cry from the Iraqi Government right now talking about the violation of sovereignty we have pictures of the ayatollah looking at a screen is these missiles that are being fired from iraq from iran into iraq so without a doubt that was happening so i think its reciprocal and also just rely on the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma spoke to us and explained why he believes iran wont give in to the u. S. Pressure. Iran is committed to escalating. Zarif the foreign minister and others made it very clear months ago. That iran could not afford to capitulate to the United States because they believe the United States wants regime change and would crush them so they have to escalate ever since president trying to scuttle the you know there has been a steady chip for escalation and that you know neither side can afford to give in because oh look weak the leaders of both sides have committed to this escalation and isc its hard to see how it how it gets you know where the off ramp means and how people can deescalate you can quibble about what kind of government iraq has and certainly there are some iraqis who are happier today than they were under Saddam Hussein but the you know the basic fact is that the United States in order to destroy the order that was in iraq under Saddam Hussein cast the sunni arabs from the top of society down to the bottom and catapulted the shiite arabs who are at the bottom of society previously under Saddam Hussein 60 percent of the population to the top and gave them the government. And the government is run by shiites today they have a majority in parliament and they voted for america to get out they are sympathetic to slow money theyre sympathetic to iran the shiites i am long in iraq look at ceylon each eliminate as a hero he came in he saved them from isis sweeping in possibly going to take baghdad and in 2014 he organized the shiite militias he armed them he helped iran helped them to turn back isis so did america but many people are grateful to so muscly money for that now sunni arabs many of them look at silly money as a criminal in the same way that george that excuse me in the same way that president trumped us but iraq is divided the thing is that the shiites have the majority and they voted and they are sympathetic to by and large to simply money and thats something going to america did they did not understand america did not understand iraqi realities and thats been borne out time after time weve miscalculated at almost every turn now in amongst all of this news some more breaking news to bring you a ukrainian plane has crashed this is with Ukraine International airlines and it has crashed coincidentally in iran to take off from khomeini airports reuters is reporting its crash due to technical problems iran civil Aviation Authority saying this happened shortly after takeoff and we believe 180. 00 passengers and crew aboard so that is a Ukrainian Airline a Ukraine International airlines. Also happens to be a boeing 737 not a boeing 737 max as far as i can see which we of course know has been caught up in 2 other fatal plane crashes but this is a boeing 737 ukrainian International Airlines its taken off from a mom clemente airport in teheran and crashed shortly after takeoff thats all we know at the moment and well bring you more on that and hopefully actually outside vegas with us in tehran hopefully will be able to bring us more on it a little bit later on in the meantime bring us up to date with well i guess reaction now out of terror as it is Early Morning there now after the rocket attacks overnight. Yes the sun coming up in iran and people will be waking up to the news that iran has retaliated and many people here is thats what they wanted thats what theyve been asking for out on the streets and there was immense public pressure on the political establishment here to react to seek revenge for the assassination of got some sort of money and thats exactly what theyve done but the foreign minister devolves raef did tweet out and he said that this was an action taken under article 51. 00 of the u. N. Charter and he said that iran doe