is it again. very significant by dictating the government's a difficult policy he vows shalt not kill part of the radicalized series on al-jazeera. i am. iraq's parliament votes to expel foreign troops after a call from the prime minister to axe over the us assassination of qassam 7 on. my. player watching al-jazeera live from doha with me for the back he will also coming up at the same time as the men's vote the leader of lebanon's hezbollah spoke warning that the u.s. military acosta means it will. cost them silly money is assassination to iran

meanwhile hundreds of thousands filled the streets some of the innocent man whose body is chronicled the end while in washington the u.s. president threatens to his dozens of iranian targets into iran to tighten its horsemen on. the earth. i am. the expert in a day of extraordinary and fast moving developments as a sense of crisis grips much of the middle east iraq spada mint has moved to expel u.s. troops from the country even as the u.s. military says that those troops have stopped most of their operations against eisel and an awful seeing on protecting themselves at the same time the leader of hezbollah in lebanon has warned that the u.s. military across the region is now a fair target for retaliation and in iran massive crowds have gathered in the cities of abbas and mashad to welcome home the body of christ samson imani whose

assassination by u.s. forces 3 days ago set in motion the current train of events will get the view from both washington and beirut in just a moment but we begin our coverage in baghdad where the last few hours have seen extraordinary scenes in the iraqi capital osama bin javid is in the iraqi capital for is an important vote in the iraqi parliament which has voted again to expel foreign troops from iraq tell us about the reactions and what happens now. hopefully the emergency session of parliament expectedly came with a resoundingly support for a resolution asking for the iraqi government to and its requests for assistance from u.s. forces essentially signaling that it wants the end of u.s. presence in iraq which was said earlier by the iraqi prime minister now that this is this decision has been taken by the parliament it is a non-binding agreement and the government does have the option to ignore it but it

was a session with also showed you the divisions that are within iraq about the presence of foreign troops about the sense of trust for iraqi forces as well as those which are backed by iran a member number of sunni and p's did not attend the session most of the kurdish and p's boycotted the session since this decision has been taken we have been getting reactions from many sunni leaders saying that these are emotional statements that have been made by the parliament and one very significant reaction coming from the uk that they're saying that this is a weak response by the parliament he's essentially calling for battalions to be formed calling on resistance fighters to get themselves ready telling the government to end its relationship with the united states immediately shut down the embassy boycott u.s. products and etc so this is a reaction that is coming in so iraq seems to be divided now on 2 sides the side

that wants the presence of u.s. troops to make sure that it's unity and territorial integrity and the training program continues on the other hand many groups including the height of the shah in the popular mobilisation forces once 5th and strike hard revenge right and the protests that we've seen in iraq over the last few weeks whether in baghdad or other cities have been denouncing foreign influence iranian influence and the presence of foreign troops in iraq what are the what is going to be the reaction of those who have been out in the series you know to this spot a mentor a vote and also is iraq in a position today to defend its sovereignty if foreign to swear indeed to leave the country. well if anything what their demands have been anything to go by this is not going to be welcomed by all of these people who are demanding an end to foreign influence especially iranian influence in iraq's affairs you saw those protesters in tahrir square at least $500.00 of them have been killed in the

last few months as iraqi government carried out a crackdown when they tried to enter the green zone and then the iraqi government allowed the popular mobilization forces to go in and essentially lay a siege around the u.s. embassy compound so it is a divisive issue it is not being welcomed already by these groups especially the kurds in the north who boycotted the session this the many sunnis in in the far flung areas outside of baghdad they don't want this u.s. presence to end because they see it as a guarantee for their rights they don't trust the iranian backed forces the accuse iranian backed forces of carrying out a lot of sectarian crimes they say after the defeat of ice and so it is an issue which is going to be playing out in the next hours and days in iraq because it is not something that every iraqi agrees or disagrees with what this has done this is us a nation of course until the money and i will have the end one this is that it has united people in saying that there needs to be and to do impunity with which the

united states operates in iraq we also heard it from the iraqi prime minister himself the saying that money was coming to iraq with a message from iran he was going to meet him in the morning because but he was assassinated saying that this is not the mandate of the u.s. forces and not the mission that he had agreed upon and saying that his priority number one is to end the presence of foreign troops in iraq whether it's going to happen how long does it going to take it is going to play out in the new in the next few hours and days thank you for that osama bin javid life or a same bank that has crossed over to join in beirut for us the lebanese capital as sat phone within the iraqi parliament was taking place mohamed as well as leader hassan nasrallah was. speaking enough anon talk us to his message and you know what has been his actions are likely to be. fully mature month mr nasrallah began his remarks this evening by stating that the death of possums in a money marked the beginning of

a new era for the entire region and he also said that it was the beginning of a new war of a new type now i mr nasr went on to say that the killing of so they money was a open and brazen crime and he laid responsibility soley at the feet of u.s. president donald trump he then went on to list along a long list of failures that he called the president trumpet committed across this region spent a lot of time in his speech listing one by one what he called donald trump's failures across the region and then he said wade into what was the main point of his speech which was that u.s. military and u.s. military assets across the region would now become a target that they would be targeted and that they would pay the price for killing costs and so they money here's more of what mr nasrallah had to say about that point. i'm not a science

a lot of the leadership and. many are debating how that just punishment should be how can we avenged for the death of sulaimani and a mind is should we talk at a big figure as important a silly money like who calls us shiva staff the secretary of defense there's nobody as important as celeb money on his his shoe alone is worth from an innocent tire capital. he's a fairfield boy i'll be clear their response is to target their merican military presence in the region their american military bases their vessels every american officer and soldier in our region and our countries on our soul ask the american army is the one who killed these people and they're the ones who will be paying the price. so mahmoud what's the likelihood of hezbollah every time for iran. well that's the very interesting question right now folly because while mr

nasrallah spent a lot of time talking about how there would be retaliation he did not give specifics as to what role lebanon might play and many lebanese citizens have been very worried the past couple of days since the killing of qassam so they money because they don't know what it means for the future of lebanon many had expected that mr nasrallah would be more specific about what role hezbollah would play he was not now analysts here believe that that is probably because hezbollah is a bit boxed in right now they have a lot of political considerations to contend with while they must pay fealty to iran while they must show their loyalty to iran and deliver this message they also have the very difficult task of trying to form a government here at a very critical time when there have been anti-government demonstrations when the country's on the verge of economic collapse when it is almost bankrupt and hezbollah knows that there is a lot of sentiment on the streets here in lebanon against them that they want all the politicians across the lebanese spectrum including hizbullah to act quickly to

try to form a government because there is no government here at this time now mr hezbollah mr now so a lot went on to claim that mr trump's real plan was to try to control that off and control that offshore oil and another interesting point about mission also the speech was that he dedicated so much time in discussing the u.s. role in there it up and how it off should expel u.s. troops u.s. forces and mr mesereau let's remarks were happening at almost the exact same time as the caretaker prime minister and i've been i've been in my deep and their messages were very similar in tone so that really suggested perhaps not maybe a coordination but a lining up of messaging from it off and from lebanon trying to really speak of what iran's interests are in the region at this moment fully but mohamed outside has been the. how is this crisis being viewed in the rest of lebanon is it only a sectarian a shia thing. lebanese citizens here do

not want lebanon drawn into another conflict there is a lot of resentment toward hizbullah here because many people who oppose hezbollah believe that they are acting as a state within a state and that while there are the military considerations of that the fact that they are an armed group and people are worried that if hezbollah is active in retaliating against the united states that could revisit violence on lebanon there also the political considerations there are the economic considerations it is known here that conventional wisdom is that hezbollah does not wish to get drawn into a regional or international conflict frankly right now many people believe they simply cannot afford it the lebanese government cannot afford it it's just not something that people across the political spectrum here including has want to happen lebanese want the government here which includes hezbollah to focus on lebanon and that really goes far beyond any sectarian sentiment yes there are die

hard hezbollah supporters in this country that do believe hizbollah should play a role in retaliating but when you go on the streets in beirut and when you speak to people here and when you listen to analysts here it is believed that most lebanese want the government here want hezbollah here to focus on trying to repair lebanon's problems and that is why there was so much worry when it was announced the thoughts and the money was killed because it was believed that hezbollah would be drawn into perhaps a conflict would be drawn into retaliating and everybody is concerned about what that will mean going forward for lebanon ali thank you very much for that mohammed john john my forests in beirut while meanwhile in iran 3 days of mourning on the way following the assassination of customs and a money earlier we heard from a spokesman for iran's foreign ministry he says iran isn't pursuing war but is preparing for anything. the islamic republic of iran is not pursuing war but we've made it very clear that we're ready for any

kind of situation in the past decades the iranian nation has always been ready to defend itself the decision will always be made by the leadership and they will prepare their responses as to how it's retaliate in the best way in the meantime this is trying to avoid war let's speak to us a big in tehran forests aside we've seen hundreds or thousands of people turning up to pay their respects as the body of solomon he returned to tehran this sunday tell us about what's been happening on the streets of the various cities that we've seen and what is the mood like among iranians today. well mourners have lined the streets in the city of the holy city of mush of hundreds of thousands millions across the country know what this assassination has managed to do is unite the different political factions in this country from the reformists to the conservatives conservatives to the hardliners all have been united all asking for

some sort of revenge for the killing of customs for the money and as for the normal people of iran it was just back in november where we saw unprecedented protests taking place across the country now the government now the religious and political establishment of this country is receiving unprecedented support people out on the streets even those that are opposed to the government and the religious establishment recognize that gazans for the money was a patriot and he was instrumental in fighting isis and preventing them from reaching the borders of iran and yes emotions are very high right now in iran across the iran across the major cities across the country you see posters of gas and so the money across the highways on the side of the road when you go to an a.t.m. machine you will see an image of customs of the money on those screens of roads have been renamed after him and also an airport and of us has been renamed in his honor so emotions are high people of mourning and we are expecting the funeral to take place and ron and step and really scenes like this have not been witnessed in

iran for 30 years since the funeral of the founder of this republic to last for many i know that many of the iranians that you've been speaking to want their government to respond they want some sort of revenge for the assassination of kassam so many what steve rainey and government likely to do think. well it's very difficult to tell right now because the foreign ministry spokesman spoke earlier and he said that the response has to be so the enemy regrets their actions but also to keep iranians from danger and that's going to be very very difficult because a soon as iran responds it invites a retaliation from the united states in the sensually an all out war a conflict that threatens to change the face of the middle east yes iran has allies and proxies across the middle east in iraq in lebanon as you've just been hearing and also in yemen but the call for revenge is very strong sense of them on his

daughter gave an interview where she said that she was sure that the leader of hezbollah would eventually have father she spoke to president rouhani here in austin who will avenge my father and his response was i will we will so so the feeling is that iran has to do something on iran's entire ideology is that they are the underdog they stand up to injustice and they would want to be seen as very strong so that so that their reaction acts as a deterrent but the danger is that this could lead to an all out conflict thank you very much for that as a big lie forests in tehran let's now cross over to washington d.c. and patty culhane who's there for us patty again the biggest developments in the last hour and a half or so is iraqi parliament voting to expel foreign troops including u.s. troops from iraq any reaction from washington or the trump administration. well

secretary of state my pump a.o. was doing the rounds of the sunday morning political talk shows as the iraqis were having the vote so he was able to basically brush it off when he was asked about it saying well we hope it doesn't happen because it hadn't actually happened yet but when he was asked about it he made sure to point out that the prime minister is leaving he said the prime minister is under tremendous pressure from iran and that he believes the iraqi people really want the americans to stay this is going to be played to 2 different audiences likely from the trump administration president often does this he wouldn't in the past when there's been a crisis the results he says look i stopped the results of what he's probably going to do to his supporters are you going to say i told you on the campaign trail that i was going to end the wars and get troops home from overseas and look i've done that so then the question happens if those u.s. troops have to go do they come home do they go to saudi arabia do they go to cut or do they go to kuwait keep in mind the broader context of this is the u.s. just said they were sending additional $3500.00 troops to the region to be able to

prepare for any potential response to any attack by iran so that's a lot of troops more than 5000 u.s. troops in iraq do they come home where do they go to those other countries even want them at this point but still for his audience that has his core supporters he's going to say i followed a campaign promise i told you i get out of these wars the bigger and probably more concerning audience for him is the u.s. senate they are not going to take this news as being anything other than a massive strategic defeat i'm talking about both democrats and republicans obviously the president likes to say the fight against eisel is over most senators say it isn't the potential for it to come back for more territory to be lost in iraq this is going to be a big problem for these u.s. senators and again if you put this in the broader context of these senators are now going to be deciding the president's fate in his impeachment trials in the upcoming weeks so whether or not this will factor into it we don't know but it most definitely could write and it seems that nobody's talking about the impeachment trial anymore after the assassination of customs. the money. at least you know it's

not top headlines anymore president trump on saturday perry threatened 52 iranian sides to hit them very fast and very hard he said if iran were to retaliate and at the same time the u.s. administration is saying that it wants to negotiate with iran that it doesn't want regime change in iran how how do we read this what what is the ultimate u.s. strategy here. i think we don't really know what the ultimate strategy is like most things when it comes to foreign policy this is the trumpet ministry ministration said in very mixed messages but this time has the potential to have really real consequences i want to point out that the u.s. military now admits that they've basically suspended all operations targeting ice all that is not going to go over well with members of congress but they say they want to stand their bases so that they can make sure to keep all of the troops safe as for the president's tweet state is going to go after 52 cultural targets because of the 52 hostages from decades ago we've already seen several democratic leaders

come out and say no you can't do that that's technically a war crime and want to point out in u.s. military training commanders are taught that if they're given an order that is clear unlawful that it is their duty to not follow through and that comes from the commanders on the ground or the commander in chief so that's something to keep in mind we talk about the president's threats but again secretary of state like pompei if they really wanted to tone down the rhetoric he is not doing that right now just in the last couple of hours he said iran should know if any attack on any american facilities at any american personnel whether it's through iran or its proxies will be met with direct targeting from the american military of the people who planned the attacks so they might say let's deescalate it we might see a tweet ok let's negotiate but then we see plenty of tweets and plenty of talk that really just up the ante that much more thank you for that patty cohen live for us in washington d.c. we're going to stay in washington and speak next to lawrence korb he's

a former assistant secretary of defense and he's going to to give us his reaction i guess 1st of all to this decision by the iraqi parliament to expel foreign troops including u.s. troops what implications for the u.s. military presence in this region. well it's not surprising because even before we assassinated soloman a we had launched attacks on several bases in iraq over the opposition of everybody in the iraqi government the president the prime minister the foreign minister the ayatollah and then of course the iraqi government has already condemned these attacks and so it's not surprising that they're asking us to leave and this is i think a consequence of not thinking through when you take an action you say well solomonic was bad we got him yeah but now you might not be able to fight isis which is a bigger threat to the u.s.

and its interests you've also charen both iraq a people on the a rainy and people against the u.s. before this the iraqis were demonstrating to get a ran out of iraq and the iranian people were demonstrating because of all of the problems that they have now they are both you know again c.n.n. of states and this is happening as patty said 3500 u.s. troops have been deployed to the region to protect. u.s. interests what's going to happen to them if this decision by the rocky on amend does go through and is approved by the government. well the question is do you bring him home the president can say as he did in syria well we've defeated isis bringing bringing them home but you know it's important to keep in mind despite what the president said if you count the people on the carrier battle groups that we've applied to the persian gulf the forces we sent to saudi arabia after the oil

facilities were bombed we've got about 20000 troops in there from a president who said he was going to get us out of the region if anything he has increased that and he's undermined what the pentagon says no we don't want to worry about the middle east that a more we need to worry about china and russia there are mains strategic competitors so you think there is a clear and sunny strategy here. you know they're just doing this on a day by day basis yeah there's no strategy in fact when they presented the options to the president and they put the killing of the killing of the iranian general on top by say that he wouldn't select that so will it's more likely he'll select some of the more reasonable options they were surprised when he accepted the solomonic you know assassination and they were not prepared for it. ok

thank you very much for speaking to us lawrence korb live there in washington d.c. . marwan bashara a senior political analysts is also with us his written extensively about the consequences of. nation an article on our website at our own 0 dot com let's start with that the big developments of the day over the last 2 hours of course as we've been saying the iraqi parliament voting to expel foreign troops u.s. troops from the country it's a big decision an important decision even though it's not a done deal yet what will it mean for you rockfest i think that's probably the most important news we've heard since the assassination of course some say the money in fact i would argue this is probably the most important news that we've had since 2003 since the u.s. invasion is it an occupied iraq because the idea of iran and iraq or listening against the united states to push the united states out of iraq. that would probably create

a new center of power on to run that if of course if the iraqis decide to go along with iran that would probably be a formidable challenge for the united states and everyone else in the region so this is the big issue because everything else fully is a bluster and we've heard the last 2448 hours a lot of bluster a lot of threats and can't the french and italians and i want to bomb 52 on about 48 in this and that and this is all of course important and that could escalate and this there could be a mission creep here even rhetorically speaking of deterrence there's a war will hike up the deterrence if force doesn't work getting suited money maybe more force would work but in the end of the day all of that is bluster the big thing the big transformation is what will happen in baghdad i would pay more attention to baghdad than to the bluster that would be hearing but you know you say that iraq i mean if iraq is turning its back to the americans now the iraqi government still iran is their only choice left as

a nominee but as we seen on the streets of baghdad in mosul and elsewhere in iraq protesters that the people the iraqi people don't want iranian influence either absolutely so and in fact iraq does have other options. it's most important option is it's arab land i think every arab country would die to join iraq help iraq even its saudi there murat the kuwaiti neighbors would be more than happy to chip in in order to keep iran at bay so iraq does have options iraq iraq is a rich country and despite the occupation of the united states and the meddling of your on it remains to be a solid sovereign country and is and has more than capable people. in order to you know build the economy build the country and so on so forth but iran does have influence in iraq and this is the big thing and this is the big story for us

between the united states and iran the united states walked according to strategy to geopolitics iran depended on its geography its close relations its religion she is' and. all sorts of connections course border with iraq that allowed it so much influence within the country the question is will he use it or abuse it clearly a lot of people think it's a lot of abuse going on in terms of its relationship with iraq so what options then does iran have now following the assassination of sunni money and asked to respond somehow if it doesn't respond it will be seen as weak observer but it doesn't want to risk an all out war with the americans either given that they're already engaged in other conflicts in the region in yemen and syria when and what do you expect every spawn's to be what is clear to me and contrary to all the. i don't want to conventional wisdom but sort of apocalyptical predictions about world war 3

about the original war i don't think that's going to happen. mostly because i don't think iran wants to go head to head with the united states the last time another power in the middle east went ahead with united states it was destroyed regime and country and that's in iraq in 2003 i think iran will will avoid a confrontation with that with the united states at any cost what it will do it will continue what it did in the past which is low intensity warfare proxy conflicts through its allies and clients in the middle east and it has wide range of issues of possibilities through clients whether it is in yemen in in lebannon in syria and iraq and sounds of war and and the united states still largely exposed in a good number of countries and that's what but as a trump wants to do he doesn't want to pull out of the middle east he wants to pull out of the hot spots of the middle east and just to remind people around the world about something very similar not only did they on says do that in somalia and

lebanon that's what israel has been kalev are really doing in gaza and lebanon and syria pulling out troops from lebanon and gaza and then using drones guided missiles air force cyber and so so forth to hit its enemies are not pulling out really redeploying right but the idea is to do the pull and the united states when it as your guest said before when it to be deployed out of syria and indeed deployments in iraq the united states it's really deployed to ships to navy to the various bases it has in the region it has a 6 feet and the 5th fleet still in the gulf and in the mediterranean and by the way just so we're all clear on some strategic one or one the united states needs to stay in the middle east because it doesn't want russia and china to come into them in this for the world too. just 2 simple figures china imports more than half of its orders from the middle east japan imports new 90 percent of which oil

from the middle east if you want to control in those you sources of japan and china what do what should you do what you should control a lot of the ins and outs of the middle east in order to put your competition in check if you want to have an advantage over china your or your mentor in control of the middle east thank you very much as always very good to get your insight on this . you're watching al-jazeera headlines this hour it's been a day of extraordinary and fast moving developments as a sense of crisis grips much of the middle east iraq spahn amends has voted to expel u.s. source from the country even as a u.s. military says that those troops have stopped most of their operations against an awful cussing on protecting themselves but iraq's top shiite cleric said olenin

tast not gone far enough is called on on groups to unite and form what he calls international resistance needs and for the boycott of american products at the same time over in lebanon the leader of hezbollah has warned that the u.s. military across the middle east is now a fair target for retaliation following the assassination of the iranian general custom silliman. and. many are debating how the just punishment should be how can we avenged for the death of sulaimani and one is should we talk a big figure as important a silly money like the us shiva staff the secretary of defense there's nobody as important as solo money and i'm 100 his shoe alone is worth from any tire cabinet. if i feel i'll be clear their response is to target their merican military presence in the region their american military bases their vessels every american officer

and soldier in our region and our countries on our soul their american army is the one who killed these people and they are the ones who will be paying the price. and in iran massive crowds have gathered in the cities of avaaz and mashad to welcome home the body of qassam some a money loser assassination by u.s. forces 3 days ago set in motion the current train of events his body will next be taken to tehran before being sent to his hometown of care mon for burial on tuesday now all those developments came hours after u.s. president donald trump threatened to head dozens of targets inside iran if it takes any retaliatory action forcing the mines death in a series of tweets tom said iran would be hit cold very fast and very hard if attacks were launched against the u.s. those are the headlines want to a nice does next. they

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