Signaling an ease in tensions, at least for now, following the u. S. Strike last week that killed irans top military commander, Qassem Soleimani. Retired fourstar general jack keane is a fox news senior strategic analyst. Good to see you again, general. Good to see you, paul. Paul you have said that the events of the last week add up to a strategic victory for the u. S. How so . Yeah, very significantly. I think its a big win for the president because by killing soleimani, i mean, he clearly got in khameneis head here, whos the stream leader of Supreme Leader of iran. Theyve never had an action against them of that magnitude and that significance that so impacts how they are cutting their foreign conducting their Foreign Policy and their foreign wars and also how they do with their own people. Soleimani was very much in charge of putting down the protest movements inside of iran. So what the president accomplished and many of his detractors had no appreciation for what was really takin
Correct ways. Hello if youre watching r. T. International im or is on a lot thank you for joining us and we do start with this breaking news iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles bases housing u. S. Forces in iraq the Iranian Military is calling it a revenge operation for the death of Major General. Who was killed in the u. S. Air strike last week the pentagon has confirmed that the end base in western iraq and the herbal base in Northern Iraq have been hit those 2 facilities housing u. S. And Coalition Forces alongside iraqi forces and there are now reports of iraq casualties in both strikes this of course follows irans warning that it would hit u. S. Targets. In response to the death of its top general on january 3rd the Iranian Military has named the operation martyrs solemn army and warned that further strikes are to come since news of the attack broke there has been a 4 percent spike in the Global Oil Price and the Us Federal Aviation Agency has banned all flights over the p
All is well thats how donald trump responded to the attacks saying he will make a statement later today previously the u. S. President threatened to destroy multiple iranian sites including cultural if you ran retaliated and anyway. Youre watching our Senior International bring you your live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program we start this hour with breaking news coming out of iran or a Ukrainian Airlines passenger jet has crashed just minutes after taking off from the capital and moments of the crash was captured on video. So. Ok were going to be now in the studio with our style of and quarter here to break down all the latest what do we know at this stage well the plane was bound for kiev when it crashed it crashed about 2 minutes after takeoff from terrans imaam khamenei airport around 6 am local time now we know that 180 passengers and crew were on board and according to Iranian Emergency Services there were no survivors theyve had teams on the scene
1st this report from say thats roughly. In the early hours of friday shortly after arriving at Baghdad International airport Major General custom saloni an iranian war hero who led the charge against isis in iraq and syria was killed in a u. S. Airstrike. His close ally the deputy head of hush those xabi an iranian backed iraqi militia. Was also killed along with other members of his group u. S. Missiles hit their convoy as they left the airport. So the money was commander of the kids force a unit of irans revolutionary guard responsible for foreign operations for irans Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei so the money was a trusted confidant a member of his inner circle his killing in a targeted u. S. Strike is the most extreme escalation in tensions between to her own and washington in recent years how many warned there will be retaliation. The cruelest people on earth assassinated the honorable commander who courageously fought for years against the evils and bandis of the world su
Here and there you know all the u. S. Allies and there seemed to be some kind of far behind the scenes at them to patch up between saudi and iran but i am afraid that now they are going to say that i think the iranians believe that the attack on cousins or the money was not feel you based on u. S. Intelligence there were other regional allies of the u. S. Who provided the coordinates and tracked him down is really as well as the argument you look to us as a nation so theyve really reach some kind of revenge against these u. S. Allies and that is the real danger because the moment that happens that israel lobby in the u. S. Will jump up and say hey we had under attack and we need to defend ourselves american do something hit back and and you know so this is the kind of you know spiral we should avoid so its very important that regional conference and regional cooperation. Weve been speaking with International Affairs expert tell you thank you for your time and your comments today. Just