A series of attacks in france and provoked a massive Security Response we look at how it affected france and how the country has been coping with. Well im terry martin good to have you with us in iran thousands of mourners are gathering for the burial of the iranian general. Who was killed by a u. S. Airstrike in baghdad on friday the generals body has been returned to his hometown of. Many salt soleimani as 2nd only to irans Supreme Leader ayatollah ali khan money his killing has provoked an outcry against america in the middle east with promises of revenge and retribution. Meanwhile germany has enough. That its withdrawing part of its contingent of soldiers from iraq due to rising tensions in the middle east around 130. 00 German Military personnel have been stationed there to train iraqi soldiers you know what comes amid confusion over whether the u. S. Intends to pull its troops out of iraq u. S. Defense department has denied reports that its planning to withdraw its 5000. 00 soldi
Educated. Welcome to the program huge crowds have gathered in the iranian city of kerman for the final funeral procession for general salim ani the top military commander was assassinated in a u. S. Drone strike in iraq on friday hell be laid to rest in his hometown well in response to the killing Irans Parliament has approved a motion designating the u. S. Army and the pentagon as terrorist organizations speaking a short while ago irans foreign minister said the u. S. Miscalculated by targeting solomonic accusing it of making the world insecure. Matter to me dont the iranian nation and Freedom Fighters are mourning this great loss the United States by assassinating a Senior Iranian general started a new chapter that will cause them problems the beginning of the end of americas presence in the region has started they do not respect International Law they are attacking iranian history which is a shared heritage to the whole world as well just hours earlier the u. S. Secretary of defense
So that the u. S. Defense secretary says there has been no decision to put american troops out of iraq this comes after a draw flats a top u. S. General in iraq revealed that forces will be repositioning to respect by that soften to the confusion in the pens can follow sundays nonbinding vote in the Iraqi Parliament calling for the removal of all foreign troops in response to the u. S. His assassination of irans top cmon a custom sort of money meanwhile iraq says the u. N. Security council to condemn the killing of sort of money and i would behind this the head of the iranian backed Iraqi Paramilitary group it wants World Leaders to ensure that baghdad is not dragged into the international or regional crises the u. N. Secretary general antonio terrace hes calling for restraint. Ive been following the recent rise in global tensions with great concern i mean Constant Contact with living officials around the worlds and my message is simple and clear stop escalation exist size maximum rest
Launched the turks 3 natural gas pipeline the project will supply the turkish and e. U. Markets with russian gas. For the very good evening to you and here alongside myself neil harvey thanks for joining us here on r. T. International 1st this hour iran has fired dozens of Ballistic Missiles at 2 u. S. Military bases in iraq the Iranian Military is calling the move revenge for the death of its top general. Who was killed in a u. S. Drone strike last week. The missile strikes happened at exactly the same time of night as the assassination of celine mani 5 days earlier as the secretary of irans supremes National Security council tweeted this image of the radian flag as an apparent reference to trumps tweet of the u. S. Flag just after the drone strike that killed some of money the iranian president has laid out what revenge against the u. S. Would mean exactly. The revenge is to fuels america out of this region the real revenge and response by regional nations is when america is expelled
A target list and had made. Plans accordingly so perhaps there was some kind of intermediary signaling between iran and the United States to move out troops that would be deployed at these bases as has been noted by many analysts this could have been more signaling than anything else on behalf of iran but they are retaliated obviously these missiles that come from iranian territory as opposed to a proxy for cirrhosis so they dont have plausible deniability they are taking credit for these attacks so clearly they want to be seen as delivering a retaliatory blow at least to their public if not internationally beyond that in washington right now weve had some signals from republican senators who have come out and said that this is the time to deescalate including Lindsey Graham who is a close ally of the president so them saying a close ally like Lindsey Graham a real hawk a real internationalist whos kind of watch. U. S. Defense policy globally to come out and say you know now is the tim