Killing more than 170. 00 people. Iran has struck back at the u. S. In retaliation for the assassination of one of its generals it fired more than a dozen missiles to iraqi bases hosting u. S. Forces tehran has warned of further strikes if washington responds but pointed out that it doesnt want war well we have a team of correspondents monitoring all the developments some of the fault is in iraqs capital baghdad gable is on there well have more on President Trumps reaction and i said big is standing by in the rainy and capital will be speaking to them in just a moment but 1st rob matheson begins our breaking news coverage. This is irans promised response to the u. S. Assassination of top iranian general seems on the money but lets stick missiles soaring into the night sky their targets to Iraqi Military bases housing thousands of u. S. Soldiers iranians are taking the crowd there to hit back directly they wouldnt even leave their proxies to deliver the message that their american. Kind of saving faith order for them because killing soleimani is its an insult from the americans to iranian establishment to iranian a state all and therefore i think youre ronnie and has to retaliate on twitter this was us president Donald Trumps response all is well hes added casualties and damage are being assessed and said so far so good hes also said the u. S. Has the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world by far the question is whether that military will be used to retaliate against these attacks u. S. Troops are based at the air base in iraq one of the 2 targets hit by iranian missiles ever since president trying to scuttle the. There has been to. Get an escalation and that you know neither side can afford to give in because they look weak the leaders of both sides are committed to this escalation and its hard to see how how it gets you know where they are so far that the u. S. Says its killing of. The leader of irans elite revolutionary guard in an air strike was in response to an attack in iraq in which a u. S. Contractor died and for which the u. S. Blames iran. And iran huge. Crowds have been in mourning and demanding revenge for sort of his death an immediate diplomatic solution to the crisis seems unlikely both sides have to be really true gauge and 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 if. Iran wants u. S. Forces to permanently leave the gulf region and it says there will be a harsh response to any further u. S. Retaliation rob matheson al jazeera. So lets show you where those iranian missiles struck 2 iraqi bases where hits one of them is an arab ill iraq semi autonomous kurdish region the other ones in iraqs western Anbar Province its called the base iraq says 22. 00 missiles were fired in total and that there were no iraqi casualties but irans foreign minister said the United States must back down or face the consequences. People said very clearly that if the United States takes any further action iran viewed respond accordingly and we would respond in a very harsh way but proportionately we did not start this process of escalation the United States raged an economic war against iran the United States has to come to its senses the presence of iranian people in the streets of many cities unprecedented in the history europe can play a useful role by informing the United States of the serious error in their analysis that they should stop listening to clowns that they should based their policy based on realities and not some evolutions of some clowns who have ambitions of script all right lets cross live now to the rainy and capital and talk to us and pay gas and so we had a rather sobering speech from the Supreme Leader and he had some very lengthy praise for kos and tsunami yes he did carson for the money was a close friend of his and also carson for the one who is the 2nd most important person here and iran and i pouring of emotion here on the streets has had an impact on the politicians and political establishment now the Supreme LeaderAyatollah Khomeini speeches are not usually carried live but this one was we were we were expecting that because of the missile strikes he had himself said that there would be revenge the needs of the revolution god had also said the same thing in the crowds in the street had big chanting asking for revenge for the general gas and so the money now the Supreme Leader said that this is a slap in the face of the United States but also that military action alone wasnt enough this is what he had to say. Were lucky you dont today we are armed the nation of iran is equipped today against the bullies of the world and im mad bomber move all over the last night we slap the us on the face when it comes to confrontation military actions of this kind are not enough what is important is the corrupt presence of the United States in this region must come to an end they brought war and hostility and deception and destruction to this region wherever they go this happens they are still insisting that this corruption this destructiveness should be imposed on iran. I. Said president Hassan Rouhani has also been speaking whats he been saying. Well he said what he said was that the United States had to cut off the hand of general customs of the money but iran would cut off their feet and asked them from the region now this is some tough talk coming from iran weve had these kind of words coming over the last few days since the assassination of them so the money best let us 1st iran is concerned this matter is over and done with the United States assassinated customs in the money that iran has retaliated an act of defiance and that thats the end of the matter as far as theyre concerned if the United States responds iran has threatened to escalate and it could result in a war because iran does have proxies and militias in the region it has militias in iraq in syria it has the hutu rebels in yemen and he has his beloved in lebanon the revolutionary guard has also threatened regional countries that host United States bases there and said that if the United States attacks iran using those bases then those countries become a target and theyve also threatened israel saying that they dont differentiate israel from the United States but frost like i said as far as iran is concerned this matter is over and done with the appeased the public here by showing that they can target United States in this act of defiance but. There is no casualties i think both countries can resume usual hostilities. Intel and i said thank you lets cross over now live to washington d. C. And bring in Gabriel Elizondo gave a rather curious tweet from President Trump saying all is well so what can we read into this some are we now seeing perhaps a pause of a possible off ramp for the americans to cool down this temperature. Well theres certainly a pause and theres certainly a potential off ramp for this to lead to some diplomacy the big question now is will President Donald Trump take that off ramp or not we overly only have heard since these strikes from one tweet from the president as you mentioned said all is well and then he ended his tweet by saying i will be making a statement tomorrow morning that would be wednesday morning here in the United States trump just said that there the u. S. Is still assessing the situation but it was sort of for lack of a better word a kind of an upbeat tweet almost like nothing to see here look you know keep going along there what to make of that i think that is essentially basically trump was meeting with his war cabinet in and after that he basically got got the word that there were no american troops that were killed and so i think basically he came to the conclusion like lets deal with this tomorrow this does not need any urgent response i think thats what you get from that that tweet there now the big question is what path will donald trump take now hes sort of backed into a little bit of a corner because hes been saying that if iran retaliated against the United States and struck any bases where there were u. S. Troops that the u. S. Would retaliate themselves well now he ran it struck you a base where u. S. Military are at now the question becomes will trump follow through with that or not or will he just see this is sort of something that he can look away from and a sense no americans were killed and make other decisions but clearly we expect to hear from the president in the next few hours probably as soon as everyone wakes up here in america after 4 am in terms of the pentagon theyve been pretty quiet all night as well theyre still assessing the damage and we expect to hear from the pentagon also on wednesday with a more Detailed Analysis and and report of what if all of the damage on those 2 bases in iraq and gave both of us such a state might pump a on the defense secretary marchesa have said theyre seeking a diplomatic solution and dont want to escalate the crisis so why are we not with any diplomatic efforts to try and take the heat out of this. Well there are certainly esper and pump a 0 both on tuesday before weve been hearing from all sorts of Administration Officials before this strike the 2 bases in iraq saying they wanted to deescalate the situation however now that this strike has these 2 strikes have happened in iraq the question becomes what happens now i think we have not heard from a lot of. Government officials on what the diplomatic avenues will be but we have heard from Lindsey Graham a republican senator whos a very close ally of President Trump and one of the most hawkish anti iran officials in congress and the late on tuesday night he said this the missiles were launched from iran at targets inside of iraq housing u. S. Military personnel the president has all the Authority Needs under article 2 to respond and hire a sponsor is yet to be determined but he has that authority to respond it was an act of war by regime for the last 40 years spent a cancer in the middle east when they say they want to destroy israel theyre not kidding theyre the largest state sponsor of terrorism. Theres going to be 2 different lines of thinking in 2 different sets of people that are going to be advising trump right now and whispering into his ear one are people like Lindsey Graham the very hawkish anti iran lawmakers and politicians who are going to be saying this is an opportunity to hit back at iran again theyre going to be others within the administration perhaps that are saying lets deescalate this this is a perfect opportunity to deescalate this question becomes this is a very unpredictable president as we all know the question becomes what will he do next quite frankly nobody knows but i was on the in washington d. C. Day thank you lets cross over now to baghdad and talk to some on a fold in some manner so we havent had any official response yet from the Iraqi Government but the but i mean how what officials in baghdad be assessing the iranian response. Well this is a good time to actually look back and see how the government reacted to the u. S. Strikes that killed customs for the money as well as the security official at the alamo hundreds that attack was condemned in the strongest terms Prime Minister added up damascus said it was a violation of iraqi sovereignty a violation of the terms of engagement of u. S. Presence here which is mainly here to fight against the remnants in the country and then went on to give a speech in parliament advocating for the departure of foreign troops including u. S. Troops and parliament then passed a decision to formally ask the government for those troops to withdraw so many will be looking at Prime Minister had a lot of them at the end the iraq government to see whether or not his condemnation and his response will be proportionate because this is the 1st time that iran has directly hit military bases where u. S. Personnel are stationed we have seen a series of rocket attacks over the past 2 months over 13 to be precise 14 with todays attacks that were aimed at u. S. Personnel but it was not iran who was responsible but rather groups that operate inside iraq who are believed to have strong ties with iran so this is really the 1st time iran directly intervening directly targeting and admitting to target u. S. Personnel here in country and it remains to be seen whether the government will condemn these attacks so similar the consequence of all this is that iraq has become the battleground for this fight between the u. S. On the one hand iran and the other lets remind our viewers that sort of money was killed in iraq is soil and it was iraqi bases that were hit by the iranians last night so i mean how ordinary iraqis viewing all of this hows it playing out. Well there is a lot of fear among ordinary iraqis that they will bear the brunt of any further escalation between the u. S. And iran of course this is a country that has. Witnessed decades of intermittent war and people here are very scared that they will once again be dragged into a conflict that they did not choose over the past year and a half or so weve seen an unprecedented period of stability where it seemed that life here in iraq was returning to normal but of course now since this latest escalation people are once again afraid that they might end up being called lateral damage in the potential escalation between the u. S. And iran so much i felt in baghdad thank you well the Iraqi Paramilitary commander killed in the same airstrike as car some sort of money has been buried in the jeff hundreds of mourners gathered for the funeral of 100. 00 he led the pro to reign in hezbollah brigades out of the rocks Popular Mobilization forces fighting against isis of the group was behind the recent Us Embassy Protests in baghdad as well as an attack on an American Military base that killed a civilian contractor well the European Union has called for restraint from both sides. To Current Situation or to dream their 1st devised. And also has implications for the work of the. Polish. Relations rocket attack on air bases in iraq used by us and equally 2 forces among them the dupion forces yet another example of excavation and increased confrontation well the us has maintained a military presence in the middle east for decades it has about 60000. 00 soldiers deployed across 20 countries its bases and facilities throughout the region including in bahrain the us and jordan kuwait has more than 13000. 00 u. S. Military personnel with an Army Headquarters 2 and one naval base the largest u. S. Military base in the middle east is here in qatar which also houses about 13000. 00 soldiers in iraq as an estimated 6000. 00 u. S. Troops including those in the green zone where the u. S. Embassy in baghdad was recently attacked by Sultan Barack outas director of the center for conflict and humanitarian studies at the Doha Institute he joins me live now so whats your assessment then of the iranian response because it seems theyre very careful not to hit us assets or kill u. S. Soldiers so is this an escalation or a clever retaliation do you think i think its part of a strategy to retaliate and keep the door open for a potential negotiated settlement between the 2 sides the iranians 1st response which was critical couple days ago was the lifting the limits on the richmond of the uranium and you have to keep in mind today winds are of spoke he really always presented as a whole case its about the nuclear deal its about the economic sanctions against iran and its not just about the to that happened over the last few days and this is really important as to and from their perspective so for them the limit really or their objective is to try and lift those sanctions. If you go back to that deal in some form or the other to be able to do so now he has hes demanding much higher requests from the United States and that is to draw all these forces from the middle east i think its very unlikely but its part of his strategy to raise the stakes in order to hopefully settle for a return to the table around the nuclear deal so so we have the u. S. On one side we have iran on the other lets not forget about iraq iraq is caught in the middle of this fight between the u. S. And iran lets remind our viewers that silly money was killed last friday on iraqi soil and the iranians have not retaliated against bases in iraq so how difficult a position is iraq in the while iraq has suffered a great deal as a result of both iranian and American Intervention since 2003 at the beginning their objectives kind of aligned 1st against Saddam Hussein and lately against i so but since the conclusion of feisal that they started to clash with each other and i think you have to also remember the demonstrations in iraq these people who went out of their way of their own will to demand an end to all these. Proxies existence in the country the fact that the power has been divided on ethnic religious lines and so on people in iraq have had enough so they were looking forward to shane and this last few days could be seen either way it could be the end of that protest or maybe the beginning for a new iraq and the sovereignty is taken seriously and the rule goes back to the iraqis lets just talk about other regional players here like the saudis the iraqis the israelis i mean the iranians are threatened by and haifa if this escalates much much more widely but surely those countries dont want to get dragged into you know some kind of conflagration across the middle east nor they want and fact the choice is very interesting haifa and dubai. In the vulnerability of these 2 places high for i suspect because of the industrial complex. Particularly the Chemical Industry that exists and dubai because of the last image that it has in a developed small city a large city. Both the saudi arabia the United Arab Emirates have changed a little bit their rhetorical over the last few hours theyre now sounding more like moderate in their perspective on the issue and less willing to encourage the United States to go to war israel i think is likely going to be a slightly different response because for the israeli Prime Minister this is a win whatever way it goes and here for him its the most important aspect thats going to save him from the corruption. Or the trials that are going south america could get your force thank you. Well if youre a Prime Minister has warned that anyone who tries to attack his country will be hit hard Binyamin Netanyahu also says he supports the u. S. Actions. Acting swiftly boldly. Against this. Thing. To. The middle east and throughout the world. Still completely beside the. Main well ukrainian passenger jet has crashed just minutes after takeoff from irans capital a boeing 737 belonging to Ukraine International airlines went down the air terence airport or the 170 people on board and all have been killed the airline says the plane was just service 2 days ago has more. Than a Ukraine International airline 737 bound for key have reduced to smoke and wreckage all those on board killed rescue crew and Emergency Personnel picked through whats left the attacker and a man khomeini airport. Video released on social media shows a faint light flickering that a fireball. The boeing jet had taken off from tower an early on wednesday after being delayed for almost an hour. After taking off from human kamini International Airport it crashed between parent and shock we are an Investigation Team from the National Aviation department was dispatched to the location after the news was announced this flight tracker shows the plane was scheduled to head to bristol International Airport in the ukraine in capital of kiev minutes after boeing 7372800 jet left the runway it went down in the South Southwest of the reigning capsule boeing says its gathering more information the 7372800 is a common single twin engine jet liner use for short to medium range flights its an older model the boeing 737 max thats been grounded for nearly 10 months following 2 deadly crashes. Its a huge setback for the company to try to reclaim trust and bring the 737 max back to the skies. And would likely have questions to answer to from the families of the victims of this crash lured out in manly out to syria lets rejoin our side from the iranian capital i said so this was the other big story coming out of iran today the crash of this Ukrainian Airlines jet what more can you tell us. Well we know that it crashed minutes just minutes after flying out of her own airport among the many airport we know it was delayed for an hour we know that there were 176. 00 people on board all of them killed mainly iranians but we believe that is over 30 people that were not hearing is a nationalities now the authorities here say that they recovered one of the 2 black boxes that those black boxes the those boxes that contain the flight information here also say that the pilot wasnt able to declare an emergency but it seems like he was able to steer the pain away from a residential area towards a soccer field now the authorities here also say that 22 ambulances were dispatched as well as a helicopter but theyre still investigating now weve seen footage on state t. V. Of ambulance crews and the red crescent going through the wreckage and in some cases taking away bodies all right as a break there in terre said thank you not least 4 people have been killed and 4 others wounded by a suspected car bomb near somalias Parliament SecurityOfficials Say it exploded near a security checkpoint in the capital mogadishu no one has claimed the attack so far but just over a week ago the armed group. Carried out a bombing in the capital killing 90 people the worst attack in more than 2 years. Right so if youre just joining us lets quickly recap whats happened in the last few hours iran has fired more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles at 2 iraqi had bases that host American Forces said it was in retaliation for the assassination of the iranian general qassam some demanding he was killed in a u. S. Drone strike on friday. While the u. S. President responded to the strikes on twitter saying and i quote all is well all missiles launched from iran to military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good and in other developments the u. S. Federal Aviation Authority has banned u. S. Airlines from flying in the airspace above iraq iran and the gulf of oman it says as a potential for miscalculation or misidentification. Well as i mentioned earlier u. S. Airlines been banned now from flying in airspace above iraq iran in the gulf of them on several airlines have suspended their flights to tehran aviation analyst explains why and what impact that will have. 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 heat seeking missiles so also if those are if an airliner is giving off the heat signature from its engines it could. Interfere with the countermeasures. 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 sure sure the flights i think it pretty much will be business as usual for the most far but yet obviously there will be some lost time for. Some quite minor diversions as a result of this air airspace thing was my gut feeling is you know theres a lot of uncertainty now on if there is or if there is 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 restrict 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 warm 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 and usually about it the u. S. Department of state well Joshua Landis is the director of the center of middle east studies that he will best of oklahoma he says iran will not give in to us 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 Sticking Point 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 were 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 locked 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 still months away 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 and by and large to simply money and thats something that america did they did not understand america did not understand iraqi realities and thats been born in and out time after time weve miscalculated at almost every turn all right so before we go lets just recap whats happened for you in the last few hours iran has fired more than a dozen Ballistic Missiles to iraqi air bases that host American Assets it said it was in retaliation to the assassination of the iranian general cost him some the money he was killed in a u. S. Drone strike on friday irans Supreme Leader meanwhile said his country is united against the bullies of the world and the u. S. President responded to the strikes on twitter saying and i quote only as well missiles launched from iran the 2 military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good are lots of for me for now is up next the news continues here on aljazeera after life abstention. Trade tensions could cost Global Economic growth by north point 8 percent we bring you the stories and developments that are rapidly changing the world we live in. Trying to be a drag on the Global Economy in 2020 counting the cost on aljazeera. Its a mobile world. With cold texts and apps to help make our lives easier. But not everyones benefiting. 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