Announcer this is cnn breaking news. Hello and welcome, everyone. We are following breaking news. Height ined tensions in the middle east, and new threats from the u. S. President. Im rosemary church. And im george howell. Welcome to viewers here in the United States and around the world. The consequence of the u. S. Killing an iranian kidnappeder a commander and far reaching. Heres where things stand no. Thousands of people are in the streets of teheran mourning the death of Qassem Soleimani. In an exclusive interview, the military advisor to the Supreme Leader, said the response will be against military sites. Iran also taking another step back from the 2015 nuclear deal. It announced that it will abandon limitations on enriching uranium. Teheran will continue to cooperate, though, with the Nuclear Watch u. N. Watch dog. President donald trump reiterated his threat to target iranian cultural sites if teheran retaliates for the strike. Attacking cultural strikes could be considered a war crime. And the Iraqi Parliament is calling on the u. S. And other Foreign Forces to get out, to leave the country. In response, the u. S. President threatened sanctions against iraq if troops are forced to withdraw. He said the troops wouldnt leave unless baghdad reimburses, pays for it, washington for an air base there. And cnn is covering this story with our correspondents around the world. Jumanna karachi is in baghdad. And comments that soleimani was in baghdad to talks about deescalating tensions between baghdad and iran. And fred is in teheran. So, fred, as you mentioned, you are there. We can see covering soleimanis funeral. Whats expected to happen this hour and what are mourners saying about the killing of their countrys general . Reporter hi there, rosemary. First of all, the turnout for this mornings ceremony has been tremendous. By the way, the people here just broke out into chants death to america as i was starting to speak. It happened here intermittently. So its a giant crowd thats turned out here. They are obviously grieving a great deal, in a great deal of pain. Also there is that call for revenge we are hearing from a lot of people. Saying fast revenge and harsh revenge. Clearly a lot of anger as well. I want to pan around a little bit. You can see the crowds are absolutely gigantic. Red flags at the location a couple minutes ago. The people have been literally waiting since the Early Morning hours to come out and pay their respects. As you can see very clearly right now, to display their anger at the United States, and specifically the trump administration, theyre very angry at President Trump for the targeted killing of Qassem Soleimani and glaring revenge, the political and religious leaders have as well. The ceremony happened only 200 yards in that direction. Irans Supreme Leader, he was close to Qassem Soleimani. Hes one of the people who said that there would be revenge against the United States. Of course, we heard targets. As you can see, this crowd very much riled up, very angry, very angry at the United States. This is obviously just one of several events thats taken place over the past soleimanis in iran early yesterday, and pretty much in every location that the body has been brought to scenes like this one, massive amounts of people lining the street, big display from anger. The crowd appears to be much bigger than even the religious leaders here in this country would have thought Qassem Soleimani, controversial internationally. They are more religious than moderate and secular people. This is someone who did have a great deal of support among many people here in iran, rosemary. Absolutely. Fred pleitkin, Senior Correspondent reporting from teheran. We could barely hear him, of course, above the anger there from many mourners gathered on the streets in teheran. Many thanks again. The u. S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has her own plan to avoid further conflict. She plans to introduce a war powers resolution designed to limit the president s military actions regarding iran. Heres what pelosi said in a letter to democratic members of congress. It reads this. The resolution, quote, reasserts congresss longestablished oversight responsibilities by mandating that if no further congressional action is taken, the administrations military hostilities with regards to iran cease within 30 days. This comes as mr. Trump threatened to put sanctions on iran if it kicks u. S. Troops out. He also repeated a threat to iran. Sarah westwood explains. Reporter President Trump returned to washington on sunday night against the backdrop of uncertainty surrounding his senate trial and chaos in the middle east after the president decided at his maralago resort to take out the commander of irans security and intelligence services. And on saturday, the president threatened to hit iranian cultural sites if iran struck any american or any american asset. That threat has sparked a backlash among critics. But the president doubled down on that threat as he headed back to washington on air force one. I want to read you part of what he told reporters during that conversation. Theyre allowed to kill our people. Theyre allowed to torture and maim our people. Theyre allowed to use road side bombs and blow up our people and were not allowed to touch their cultural site . It doesnt work that way. Now, democrats for their part have expressed skepticism that the intelligence the administration cited as the reason for taking out this iranian leader was urgent enough to warrant this level of military action. Democrats have also expressed concern that the administration has thought through the implications of this move. Take a listen. I really worry that the actions the president took will get us into what he calls another endless war in the middle east. He promised we wouldnt have that, and i think were closer to that now because of his actions. Reporter meanwhile, the future of the president s impeachment trial in the Senate Remains in a state of limbo while the president was at his resort for nearly two weeks surrounding the holidays, he was asking advisors and aides who were with him who should represent him during that senate trial. White house officials have not been able to make concrete decision biz what that strategy should look like. Just who should play the exact top roles because Speaker Pelosi hasnt yet made a move. Sarah westwood, cnn, the white house. Sarah westwood, thank you. From washington now to the iraqi capital, you man a karachi, live in baghdad at this hour. People angry about the targeted killing on iraqi soil. Now there is a mush push to see soldiers kicked out of iraq. Reporter george, the Iraqi Parliament did vote yesterday putting the ball in the court of the Iraqi Government telling them they need to work now to get Foreign Forces, Coalition Forces, out of iraq. We saw the iraqi Prime Minister in a very shocking stunning move where you have the Prime Minister in Parliament Making an argument for why Foreign Forces should leave iraq, the same forces they requested to come and assist them a few years ago. As we heard from the Prime Minister, he gave the background to reaching this situation, this decision, saying that over the past few months, tensions have been rising between iran and the United States. This proxy war has been playing out here in iraq. And now with this recent unprecedented escalation, you know, theyre really concerned that iraq is going to be caught in the middle, the Battle Ground for any sort of confrontation is going to be here in iraq. And the only way they could see to prevent this from happening is by asking Foreign Forces to leave. He said there could be other options like looking at some sort of an agreement with the u. S. Forces with Coalition Forces to limit their movements here, to kind of regulate their mission. But he says considering the current situation, the threat levels here, Iraqi Security forces are not going to be able to protect them, to protect their bases. So theyre only left with this really difficult decision to make and choice, and that is to ask them to leave. Now, there are, you know, questions about how this is all going to happen. This is a caretaker government. Some logistics and procedural issues theyre going to need to work with. But, of course, most importantly, george, are the repercussions of a decision like this when iraq is going to ask Foreign Forces to leave, basically handing a major victory to the iranians who for years have wanted nothing more than seeing the United States and its troops out of iraq. And then there is isis that, of course, has been defeated territorially here, but the group is still active. It is still present. It still has the ability to reemerge. When you have such a chaotic situation like this, this is Fertile Ground for this group to reemerge. A lot of concerns about that, especially after we heard from the u. S. Led coalition saying theyre halting their operations against isis to focus on protecting their forces here on the ground, george. That is significant when you think about the resurgence, the regrouping of isis there in the region. Jumanna, at the same time, saudi arabia which also has a border, really depends upon those u. S. Forces just across. Heres the other question. Given the fact that the vote has taken place, as you pointed out, given the fact the president is promising sanctions against iraq if, indeed, troops are forced to leave that country, look, its 10 00 in the morning there. Are you hearing any reaction from people as they learn this news . Reporter were going to wait and see now, reaction, as people are waking up to this news, to this statement from the u. S. President. You know, george, i was talking to some members of Parliament Following that vote. All of them are describing the u. S. President as not understanding iraq. Theyre saying the United States, after spending 16 years in this country, still does not understand iraq. And the iraqi people. Now, when it comes to that statement from the president , its actually quite stunning when it begins with saying that, you know, they cant ask u. S. Forces to leave this country and threatening sanctions against iraq if it does so. First of all, this is not an occupied force. This is a force that has been invited by the iraqee government. People will be angered by statements like this one that has disregard for iraqi forces. Threatening them with sanctions and telling them there are going to be sanctions like theyve never seen before. This is a country that suffered so much in the 90s for decades under the u. N. Iimposed sanctions where thousands of lives were lost, attributed to the sanctions that stopped the import that limited the import of food and medicine. People have really suffered here. So to tell them that they will see sanctions like theyve never seen before is only going to create and increase antiamerican sentiments that we are seeing reemerge again here, george. As you point out, a u. S. Ally. Jumanna que ranch jumanna karachi, thank you for the reporting. It doesnt matter what you look like from the middle east to europe, it seems allies and rivals are calling for both sides to deescalate tensions. And just a short time ago, this joint statement came from british Prime Minister boris johnson, french president emmanuel macron, and german chancellor angela merkel. It says in part, we call on all parties to exercise utmost restraint and responsibility. The current cycle of violence in iraq must be stopped. And our National Diplomatic editor is in riyadh. He joins us now live. Nick, World Leaders calling for deescalation of tension. And in the midst of this, iraqs caretaker Prime Minister is suggesting that soleimani was actually in baghdad to help deescalate tension between iran and the saudis. What more are you learning about that . The saudis have been vocal publicly in the past few years in particular saying iran should cease and desist. What the saudis see is expansion throughout the region by using proxies, giving them missiles, ballistic missiles, giving them to the houthis and yemen. Saudi has been calling on iran to stop this. Back channels, however, to deescalate. I think we get a sense that those have been going on, particularly if you look at the saudi oil attacks in september last year. Two terminals hit, more than half of the countrys oil output halted because of these sophisticated drone and missile attacks. But the saudis stopped short of saying publicly what they believe privately that this attack was not only inspired by iran, but using iranian equipment, but took up from iranian soil. And the reason they didnt go public and make these very strong accusations publicly although they Brought International partners in to see the evidence for themselves. That was supported by britt, by british, by americans. They chose to rather than go face to face with iran and escalate the situation, to deal with it behind the scenes and back channels. While we dont know what the content of the saudis said to the prime ministiraqi prime min. You certainly understand in this region here there is no desire for escalation. Everyone would lose and thats a major concern and a concern today, the saudi number 3, ben salman, Deputy Defense minister will be meeting with secretary of state mike pompeo in washington a little later today. Nick, how much influence will this call from World Leaders to exercise restraint and responsibility, likely have on the next move taken by President Trump and by iran, and what might it anything in terms of what britain france, germany would do next should this tension escalate . There are so many calls going on and statements being made. That joint statement by britain, france and germany has a component of a message to iran, a component to the white house as well. The french, germans and british are telling the United States that they understand whats at stake for the United States here and the threat that its been under, that its forces have taken from iranianbacked proxies in iraq. There is an absolute understanding there. But also there is desire to telling them to deescalate, telling the iranians to deescalate, too. Telling the iranians to get in compliance with multinational ethnic deal iran signed up for in 2015. There is a real effort here to send this coordinated message, and then there is a separate phone calls that happened from the french president yesterday for the iraqi Prime Minister, talking about the International Coalition thats in iraq to fight isis and how thats shaped going forward. All the leaders are using direct channels to try to influence, try to bring the temperature down, try to see a way forward other than relying on President Trump and his very blunt and forceful messaging to iraq additional sanctions to iran. Theyre trying to use direct contacts to bring the temperature down. The Iranian Foreign minister has been invited by the European Foreign Affairs chief to brussels, having a North Atlantic Council meeting in brussels. There is a huge amount of work being done to kword nalt and to send clear and precise messages. Very diplomatic editor Nick Robinson in riyadh, saudi arabia. Many thanks to you. 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