But 1st the world is not the same since donald trump ordered the killing of iranian soldier caught some salami who along with his Iraqi Popular mobilization unit counterparts were drone strike on friday at Baghdad Airport joining me now from tel aviv is former israeli ambassador to the United States danny ayalon thanks so much about coming back on the show lets just begin with what you think your well indicted Prime Minister netanyahu meant when he said israel should not be dragged into what was an american event yes it was a totally american wholly owned american operation and i believe it came following the attack on the American Embassy in baghdad but basically i think the United States was fed up with the intervention of iran through. The Iranian Revolutionary guard and most of the. Force the ocas force which was headed by General Assembly money their responsibility was actually to subvert all over and. I would say make sure that the iranians. Get the influence all over the area an
U. S. Targets in irans size of the rush of missiles. Iraq emitted bases hosting u. S. Troops its to irans retaliation against the assassination of us into a money but will this revenge operation stop there and might washington strike back this is inside story. Hello welcome to the program. Theres been much speculation about the scale and target of irans retaliation to the assassination of its top military command customs today money and theres also speculation about whether the killing of the head of the revolutionary guards elite force could bring all out war to the middle east iran find more than a dozen besides a 2 air bases hosting American Forces in iraq early wednesday its the most direct attack on the u. S. By iran in decades initial statements by both countries seem to say they dont want further escalation the Iranian Foreign minister exact words were it one took and concluded proportionate measures in selfdefense to irans made it clear it will strike again if washington respon
Exchange. Im Contessa Brewer in for Brian Sullivan the pentagon confirming overnight that general Qassim Soleimani has been killed. The leader of the elite revolutionary guard in a targeted attack at Baghdad Airport. The attack came at the direction of President Trump the major averages are set to open in the red on this news lets take a look at the futures down across the board. The s p 500 indicated to open down 35 points the dow indicated to open down 273 and the nasdaq off by 114. Lets show you this quick Market Reaction we were watching last night off a positive close yesterday just after 8 00, the news came in about that killing of the leader of the Iranian Revolutionary guard. The plummet now again. Dow futures off by almost 1 across the board, we were seeing a swift reaction with the Energy Markets as well. Right now, wti is up crude is up 3. 5 as well look at the chart. What happened as the news came in wti spiked as the news came in just before or just after 8 00 p. M. We saw
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The protesters here in lebanon they have not been as focused on trying to lessen the iranian influence as say it is the case in any talks i mean thats something you hear from a lot of the protesters in Tahrir Square in baghdad and other parts of it off where i was several weeks ago here in lebanon on the protesters mainly have been talking about trying to come together as a country and really get a government that works for the lebanese people a government made of technocrats they want to in corruption and this is something where now you have this complication thats really going to impact the formation of a government because it has but let is a huge political player in lebanon because they are going to have to agree to whomever the Prime Minister designate assumes will be his cabinet so this just really is just really causes more complications at a time when the lebanese are tired they want to get a functioning government and they want the country to be in much better shape economical