Influence across the region killed as he left the airport in back that along with others including the 2nd in command of the Popular Mobilization forces ever met the hundreds weve been hearing in the last few minutes from the iraqi president urging for calm and restraint and unity and in the in the hours leading up to this weve been hearing from various political leaders including the Prime Minister saying that a is this was a violation be this cannot be condoned in any way shape or form weve also heard from various political factions in iraq only how the and im ready and also the leader of the sudras bloc a book that al assads are saying that this is going to be to putting their forces on alert to some commanders calling them their their their forces on the ground their fighters on the ground valuing them telling them to be ready saying that this is the beginning of a great victory that was promised to them alluding to the ideological fight that they have been having with the United S
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
Will make a statement later today previously the u. S. President threatened to destroy multiple iranian sites including cultural ones if youre an retaliated and anyway. Youre watching R T International coming to you live from the russian capital where its just turned 11 am im here jacqueline to go with my colleague as well don of our breaking news this hour is coming out of iran where a Ukrainian Airline passenger jet has crashed just minutes after taking off from the capital Ukrainian Interior Ministry says 180 people on board were killed the moment of the crash was captured on video. Were not going to go live to iranian journalist the editor in chief at iran front page who will bring us the latest what do you know at this point. It seems that ukrainian saying he belongs to ukraine and alone and it crashed minutes after taking of wrong the formally airport which is this suburb both the capital city of iran and the. Majority of the passengers have been the rain in nationals about 147.
All is well thats how donald trump has responded to the attacks thank you will make a statement in the coming hours previously the u. S. President threatened to destroy multiple iranian sites including cultural ones if you round retaliated and anyway. Youre watching R T International bring you your live news update from our studio here and moscow welcome to the program. Now for our breaking news story im joined in the studio here with nicky aaron as well a Ukrainian Airlines passenger jet has crashed just minutes after taking off from the capital tehran Ukrainian Interior Ministry says there were no survivors of the crash the moment of the crash was captured on video. Well boeing be ukranian boeing 737 took off from the capital tehran here. At 6 12 am local time and it was bound for the ukrainian capital kiev and just a few minutes around 10 minutes after taking off it crashed and reports so that we received images and footage showing the plane crashing while in fire and the crash site