well not coastline i'm pretty sure but it looked around the room instead customs of the money and customs the money was targeted that man was like you said possibly being groomed to take over the supreme leader's position and also pushing rice others that want their position i think the president made the right decision it was the right message to send meaning if you want to send a message to iran just stop i think this is the masses but we have to give them a face saving gesture if tonight's attack was that face saving gesture and this is the escalation ok we have to leave it there. so i'll interrupt you there but michael pigeon thank you so much for joining us here on al-jazeera thank you. it's just on 6 am in baghdad 630 in tehran 10 pm in washington d.c. i'm come all santamaria here in doha with continuing coverage of the new developments out of the gulf this wednesday as you've been hearing iran has

launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles at joint us in iraqi facilities in iraq at least 2 bases have been targeted one of them is in erbil and also the iron base in anbar province also iran's revolutionary guard has issued a warning to israel and other u.s. allies in the region saying they will be attacked if their countries are used for strikes against teheran now in the last 20 or so minutes we've had. reaction from the u.s. president on twitter of course and he starts by saying all is well missiles launched from iran to military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good we have the most powerful most well equipped military anywhere in the world by far i will be making a statement tomorrow morning. and then we've also heard from iran's foreign

minister mohammad zarif this is what he said he said this before donald trump i should point out as well iran took and concluded proportionate measures in self-defense under article 51 of the united nations charter targeting a base from which cowardly attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched we do not seek escalation or war but will defend ourselves against any aggression so that's the reaction we've had from 2 of the biggest players we would say another development we've got is that the u.s. federal aviation authority the f.a.a. has now banned u.s. airlines from flying over airspace in iraq also in iran in the gulf of oman a bit further south and the waters between iran and saudi arabia in other words the gulf itself it is citing quote the potential for miscalculation or mis identification this is how the region's airspace looks at over 100 hours

g.m.t. that was 2 hours ago and we'll be keeping an eye on how the skies are looking that is a ban for u.s. carriers but we'll see what knock on effect there will be right let's start in baghdad are some of binge of 8 as i said 6 in the morning there and quite an extraordinary it's been take us through it. welcome all of the sound of helicopters in the air has now been one just replaced by morning prayers here in baghdad it's just over 6 am you mentioned. people in iraq will be waking up to the news of this attack which happened in iraq is the burst fear which are stated by iraqi government officials their country is yet again the theater of war for 2 giants as iranians decided to attack 2 bases in iraq one in northern parts of being and the other one in anbar province i had the eye in the last of the base in the last few minutes we've heard from the kurdish prime minister on the kurdish

autonomous region saying that he's spoken to secretary powell below and suggested steps for deescalation as well as you know that the 2nd attack at the kurdish semi autonomous region in the northern iraq the kurdish pm and so burns i mean it's just tweeted he's among the leaders who've now given their version of events as you say you cited their president on trump as well as the iraq the iranian foreign minister we're still waiting to hear from the iraqi government which conspicuously remains absent from the scene we've been speaking to iraqi officials all night both government and political but we haven't heard from the iraqi leadership itself be the last time we heard from the iraqi prime minister he said that the only solution in the way forward is for foreign 'd troops to leave his country and that's something that he has reiterated in phone call of the world leaders as well as the u.s. ambassador when he met him but as it stands more than

a dozen missiles landed in alaska a base so far. according to the u.s. president all is very well and we have not heard of any casualties although there have been some indications by some iraqi security officials that there might be some injuries on the iraqi security side that again is coming from just one source one iraqi security official fearing that there are some cash. but no further details on that as well so this is very stand according to the semi government agency this neem in iran some forces of the popular mobilization forces also launched their attack but that has not been confirmed by either p.m.s. sources on the ground or any and the indication apart from these missiles we have nor the reports of any other ground attack being launched against any of these bases so some are just here sorry i'm going to i'm going to jump in there and jump in there my friend just to go back to the point you made about not hearing from the iraqi government so far. they want to state the obvious here but this is all

happening in iraq it is their country being used as a battleground between the united states and iran at the moment and they have a right to feel aggrieved about that. well i'm quite sure that they will be once they decide to comment on this and it is it's been a very eventful night before in the lead up to these attacks you heard from the secretary of state might bump aoe and you heard from the secretary of defense mark casper both of them directly contradicting what the iraqi prime minister has been telling his people mark esper saying that the letter does not unsigned letter in his words does not signal a change in policy in iraq and b. of a few hours ago said that the last communication that he's had with the coalition was that letter in fact and might bump it came on under the podium and laughed about us in the money being indicated as somebody who was carrying

a message something directly that the iraqi prime minister had told his parliament that that cost him to live and he was going to meet him in a few hours before he was assassinated so again iraq find itself in a very difficult spot where the prime minister's victory been contradicted by both the secretary of defense and state and the iraqi prime minister had been warning that there are concerns that iraq will be dragged into this war it does not want to be dragged into this war and that was the concern on the ground under streets of baghdad when we were speaking to people they were concerned they were afraid they fear their epic cautions of what could happen as a more and more steps are taken one m.p. said to us that what happens when one american death caused the death of a new a new general what if iran attacks and more americans are killed where does it stop and that is the kind of concern that you see on the streets here in iraq and i'm quite sure that many iraqis will wake up to this news as their worst nightmare that

they were expecting of their professions upper classes and their money and of a mandaean wonders where assassinated just one thing i'd like you to clarify for me and that is the bases which have been hit these iraqi bases are these joint facilities are these places where u.s. troops happen to be stations just just just for clarification. well come up there are no u.s. bases per se in iraq all of the facilities that the u.s. led coalition is using are in fact iraq the bases that i know less that base goes back to the 1970 s. it was established by even before saddam hussein and it was taken in the u.s. led invasion in 22003 it was handed back to the iraqi security forces in 20112014 when the u.s. forces started their operation against i salute the refurbish that base and we've been to that base a multiple multiple times and we've seen the kind of operations there recognizance operations which happened from and the last that the kind of drones which are flown

their ground assets which are there it's a sprawling complex and probably holds more than a few 100 troops that any given time and air bill again the facilities that they have are jointly shared with the kurdish peshmerga and the other base that they have is very distant to the airport the international airport so besides the consulate and the embassy that those are sovereign u.s. territories on iraq the land every their base is a joy to be with one or the other one around the iraqi security apparatus exxon could clear that up we'll talk to you again soon osama bin. baghdad's just a reminder of the same there's a sama on the left is in teheran as well we've got her in west jerusalem talking to them all shortly but starting now with kimberly houk it at the white house where it is 10 past 10 in the evening kimberly did i hear you correctly saying before that

while the president is tweeting the press secretary's office is gone dark. yes that is exactly what you heard me say quite perplexed seeing that at such a heightened moment not only did we see the lights go out in the press office our main source of information here at the white house but we saw the vice president leave no he doesn't live here at the campus so it's not unusual for him to leave in the evening but given the tensions and what we're talking about it was somewhat surprising given we know that he was here as well as the secretary of state the defense secretary even the chair of the joint chiefs of staff at one point in the situation room alongside the president as we were hearing the news in the reports of these 2 strikes on the bases there where u.s. personnel military personnel inside iraq are occupying so this was somewhat perplexing because what we can deduct from all of this is the only person

communicating what's happening right now is the president who's sitting in the residence behind me tweeting because he did tweet that all is well we don't know what that means is that we now have to wait until the morning so given the fact that it's 10 past 10 local time here at least 8 hours one would suspect until the president in fact will be talking to us now i will tell you that i have lost or i have be connection so i'll just finish up with a couple of thoughts if you are still hearing me but the president's really backed himself into a corner essentially he had earlier in the day had some very tough talk with the minister prime minister of greece alongside him in the oval office saying that if iran took any action that the united states would respond that there would be some sort of response that would be very proportional if you will but we haven't seen any evidence of that or had any reports of that so it were left kind of wondering

what this all means and again this is something that will have to wait now we suspect some. number of hours until we hear from the u.s. president when he says he will make an address to tell us what's going on in the morning kimberly how could doing a great job there at the white house will be back with her when we connect again later on moving on to teheran now his. let's compare what as kimberly was saying donald trump tweezing always well almost a sort of nothing to see here and as she says we don't really know what that means yet by comparison mohamed jevons the reefs tweet quite nuanced actually referencing the u.n. it was that article 51 of the u.n. charter. that's right he. iran is concerned concerned this is a retaliation and a defensive action and drugs are you saying that we don't seek war and that's exactly what the revolutionary guard have been saying it's what politicians have

been saying they're concerned this is our reaction to a specific event and that event was the assassination of the money we understand that iran has also written to the united nations and the secretary general and they've said that they are not seeking war and have war against any military adventurism against iran so that lets us going to the united nations. and the secretary general but we we knew that this was happening we knew that this was going to happen and because it was a matter of when not if because the population the people on the streets were asking for revenge the politicians were calling for revenge and even the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei has said that there would be retaliation that there would be revenge and that and the authorities the political establishment here were the immense pressure from the public because of the money was a high profile figure he was revered as a patriot and after the days of mourning as he was being buried iran essentially

has made a statement by launching those 2 waves of attacks now what we do understand is that we are hearing from some of the i.r.g.c. the revolutionary guard linked news agencies that there are 2 kinds of missiles fired one has a range of 500 kilometers and has a guiding system and you're the one. wire. and has the range of 750 to 800 number just but iran says it don't want to scale a show but they have warned regional countries the whole studio spaces if tact is launched against iran using those bases iran will retaliate they've also said that they. i do not differentiate between israel and the united states and iran does have proxies and militias and allies in the region they have militias in iraq they have to do rebels in yemen they have they have militias in syria but also they have

has a lot never known if united if the united states decides to retaliate and this could escalate very very quickly. just a quick mention if you wouldn't mind about and let's not forget we're all of the stars of the death of qassam so the money we're seeing live pictures of this is the final stage of the burial because it's been a long process 3 full days. yes he's body was brought 1st to a vase in the holy city of mush other than the funeral took place in toronto hair on monday where hundreds of thousands of people came came back onto the streets the supreme leader to the for many led to prayer and then he was taken to the holy city of rome and now to his home city of kut a moderate he wants to be buried alongside those that died fighting in the iran iraq war and that barrett was found because yesterday there was a stampede and there were multiple casualties and get far refused didn't want to

know the incident because that his home city has a population of around 820000 but 100 hundreds of thousands of people converge on the city to say their farewells so we understand that he's currently being buried now and he was a very popular figure out or he's assassination has managed to unite the different political factions here in iran just back in november there were widespread anti-government protests now we have popular support for the government and political establishment have because of this assassination there's been images of some sort of money put up around the country on billboards over more to a hangover's even if you go to an a.t.m. and want to redraw some money you will see an image of course of the money on those greens we saw people carrying his image but also chanting and asking for revenge to calm him to calm the farsi word for revenge and that and the head of the d.c. yesterday spoke to the crowds and he said that there would be revenge and it would

be crushing any which. would be something that the united states remember but he is being buried now in this finals certainly that was postponed after that stampede yesterday thank you us a big in tehran more without such short makes. much of what we're seeing at the moment is coming in on twitter. u.s. presidents running foreign minister now the kurdistan regional prime minister in iraq must know but isn't the been on twitter and he said he held a call with the u.s. secretary of state might pompei o and suggested ways to deescalate tensions and to contain the situation so that's not response from the iraqi government but that is from erbil where one of the strikes did happen that is in the kurdistan region in iraq so let's take you through at about quarter past the hour a quick reminder of the developing news more than a dozen ballistic missiles fired at u.s. facilities well joint u.s.

iraqi facilities in iraq at least 2 iraqi air bases targeted one as i said in a bill also the an al assad air base in the province iranian state television has said the revolutionary guards launched quote tens of surface to surface missiles let's try getting some analysis earlier p.t.w. speaking to lawrence korb who is a former u.s. assistant secretary of defense who told us that iran's retaliation for the assassination of gen so the money puts president trump in an extremely difficult position. president trump has no good options he thought that killing so long and would put a stop to this tit for tat if you will responses he does not want to get the united states and a big war with iran i may not read it much bigger for example that than iraq but on the other hand he doesn't want to look weak because basically he thought that killing so all of money would put a stop to to all all of us and remember he ran as the president who is going to get

us out of these wars if you count the troops he said then after the recent attacks on the us bases in the semper we have 60000 troops in the region right now and so he has no good options and it will be fast a to see what he does we do remember after the iranians blew up the saudi oil fields he didn't retaliate the iranians may have taken that as a signal that they could you know question by attacking the american bases until a. contractor and of course that he retaliated by filling the general self-sown the money i think it's least worst option would be to maybe. attack a rainy ship for example only in the strain of hormuz or to

basically hit some of the a radiant forces that are in iraq those are the 5 things i think we can do and don't forget we have the whole situation with iraq what i would the iraqis going to say whatever his responses will it get them to want to move the u.s. forces out which would undermine our security because isis is really you know reconstituting itself not as a counter a but as a terrorist group. as we mentioned earlier ron's revolutionary guard has issued a warning to u.s. allies and that includes israel so we'll talk to harry force in west jerusalem about that is this to simply say that israel you are an ally of the united states we consider you effectively part of the united states in all of this. yes and i think that will come as no great surprise to the israeli government as you're saying so much of this. finding out and searching for on twitter at the

moment in terms of donald trump's reactions and others the iranian foreign minister so far no reaction officially from the israeli government but this does accord in some way with what we were hearing from the security cabinet meeting which took place on monday during that meeting benjamin netanyahu the prime minister telling his cabinet colleagues that this was an american iranian issue that it was an american attack on iran and that israel was not involved in it also leaks from that cabinets to local media suggesting that the intelligence services here in israel have briefed the government that they expected u.s. interests in the region to be attacked and not israeli ones at least in the 1st instance and i think that is the key question here israel is very aware that if this if this situation does escalate it will be very much in the firing line and

could well be drawn into a wider conflict and that was the message that i think we were getting from the i.r.g.c. in that news agency statement in which it was saying that haifa in particular a very major port city in northern israel that that could be attacked in a new wave of escalation should the united states respond right so the picture i'm getting from you and have you as our as well is that whilst we're looking at technically iran this is the united states it is all the other elements that iran has in other parts of the middle east and a lot of them close to israel which israel has to watch out for. of course yes we have are just on the northern border in southern lebanon there is islamic jihad which is very closely aligned with iran in gaza and of course hamas also with good relations or at least repairing relations with iran as well and so

israel is aware of those of those elements of iranian influence very close to it and also iran inside syria and inside iraq israel of course has been carrying out strikes against iranian interests in both of those countries in recent months and in the case of syria years and it has been targeting the g c and and elements late to sort of moneys forces as well so the israeli response really through benjamin netanyahu was both evincing some support for the fact that sort of money is no longer a player in the region talking about the threat that he posed and saying that it that the united states had the right as did israel to carry out. military operations in its own self-defense but without really fully

endorsing the strike in terms of of giving its imprints or of it being necessarily something that israel would have done itself israel of course has been following the money and monitoring for the money and it's his activities extremely closely carrying out attacks but this attack by by donald trump's administration last week is a major game changer and is causing some concern inside israel. despite the fact that many here would support the moneys removal the potential consequences if there is a wider escalation will be felt very keenly here and i think a lot of people will be looking perhaps was. some relief of what donald trump said in that tweet that all is well we're trying to read all sorts of signals from pretty limited information so far but the idea that the american president's 1st response after such a major or at least after a direct strike on u.s.

interests by another sovereign nation is to say that all is well perhaps or has towards some kind of deescalation but we of course as everybody does await a full real full statement from the oval trump as kimberly was saying in several hours time harry for 7 months or is and thank you for that it's a bit of context now because so much this is about the u.s. presence in the middle a state has been u.s. joint u.s. iraqi facilities which have been attacked today the u.s. has had a military presence here in the middle east for decades really 60000 troops deployed across 28 countries there are bases and facilities throughout the region that includes back train the united arab emirates jordan and syria kuwait has more than $13000.00 u.s. military personnel with an army headquarters 2 air one naval of course the largest u.s. military base in the middle east and here in qatar it also houses another $13000.00 troops and then i guess more pertinent for what's happening right now in iraq an

estimated $6000.00 u.s. troops which includes the green zone where the u.s. embassy in baghdad was recently attacked early adult trump said the killing of so the man is saved a lot of lives and many countries have actually thanked him he said so the money was planning imminent attacks with more details to be revealed to congress on wednesday. we had tremendous information we've been following him for a long time and we followed his path for those 3 days and they were not good steps we didn't like where he was stopping they were not good stops we saved a lot of lives he's been called a monster and he was a monster and he's no longer a monster he's dead and that's a good thing for a lot of countries and he was planning a very big attack and a very bad attack for us and other people and we stopped him. more on u.s. reaction now with kimberly white house correspondent kimberly i'm going to just read out donald trump's tweet which is about half an hour old now with the curious

beginning all these whale missiles launched from iran to military bases located in iraq assessment of casualties and damage is taking place now so far so good we have the most powerful and well equipped military anywhere in the world by far i'll be making a statement tomorrow morning. i know we used to expect in the unexpected with president trump kimberly but that was certainly not what i expected for him to start with all is well and so far so good. yeah let me try and translate that because i'm getting pretty good at reading these tweets in between the lines after 3 plus years of doing so what essentially i think he's saying there in layman's terms is that right now the pentagon is waiting for daylight which i know as we've been reporting seems to be the sun seems to be coming up in the region and this is typically when that so-called battle damage assessment takes place so what the united states typically does in these situations is says all is well because you don't want to hand a p.r.

victory to your public relations victory to your enemy in this case iran so they're going to say all is well even if it isn't well in fact the united states typically would be very tight lipped if there was serious damage in any way to any of its infrastructure if there had been any casualties they're going to try and play that down so the president starting that tweet off in a rather curious way where we typically might have seen a carefully crafted statement coming out of the pentagon instead we're having a tweet from the u.s. president which is now with him for many years has been official u.s. policy under the trumpet ministration so the other thing that we have to watch for in all of this is what happens next because the u.s. president just hours ago was very clear when he spoke in the oval office that if iran took any sort of action that there would be some sort of counter attack those were his exact words but he certainly intimated that there would be some sort of

heavy handed response you have to remember that this is a president that has a very thin skin he likes to appear strong he does not like to appear weak so he's backed himself into a bit of a corner having said that we also know that the president is being is having a lot of consultations if you will not just with his national security team but with partners and allies as well the latest being the amir of qatar in fact we got a readout. in the last couple of hours by the white house press office saying that in fact the u.s. president had consulted with the emir that they had talked about iraq and iran as well as critical bilateral regional issues there perhaps maybe some sober 2nd thoughts that may be taking place right now given the fact that both sides know should this continue to ask late the results will not be good on either side so we are looking ahead to the tail end of that tweet where the president promises in the coming hours in our morning which is still quite some hours away that the u.s.

president will be telling us what exactly has happened and what he intends to do about it moving forward so then it comes down to its aims and begun teheran was making this point earlier it will come down to an interpretation is it retaliation or is it escalation because either side can view any events either way it wants the iranians are very clearly saying this is retaliation for one specific event killing of custom so the money it would require don't try to see it that way as well for them to not be further retaliation. and both sides have had some curious starting points you know when convenient the u.s. will say that for 40 years iran has been responsible for malign activity is the phrase that's used in the broader middle east you could also make the argument from iran standpoint that the the aggression towards iran started the day donald trump

waltzed into the oval office and took over the presidency and the white house essentially declaring the i r g c a terrorist organization putting in place that so-called maximum pressure campaign against iran the tough economic sanctions pulling out of the iran nuclear agreement to limit its nuclear program these are very provocative actions add to that some of the staff that donald trump has hired not just the hockey secretary of state mike pompei o but for a while we have the national security adviser john bolton advising the president he has one who penned an op ed in the the wall street journal i believe it was advocating for a strike against iran really there was no trying to hide that this was an aggressive stance that was taking place but i should note as of today this administration as it has for many months has been leaving room for negotiation in the midst of all of this tough talk but really speaking out of both sides of its

mouth the latest example coming from the secretary of state my pump aoe saying that he didn't want to start a war but the united states would finish one very similar to the statement we got from the iranian foreign minister in just the last couple of hours some sort of similar language it seems both sides using that language right now but again the united states very aggressive because that same iranian foreign minister is not being allowed to come to the united states on thursday the united states is not allowed him to have the visa to enter for the meetings of the u.n. security council set to take place on thursday so as the united states says it wants to negotiate it's not allowing a man who could allow for some of those no go. into the country so the united states has picked a curious starting point as it continues to point the finger at iran is saying is still open to negotiations but it's posture hardly seems so kimberly how could so the white house thank you kimberly a reminder as committee was talking about there as we were discussing that these

attacks are in retaliation iran says for the killing of general qassam so the money who is finally being laid to rest these pictures from come on in iran about a 1000 kilometers south of the capital tehran. room of the events of yesterday with upwards of 40 people were killed in a stampede at the funeral after a 3 day mourning period a 3 day funeral procession period and now. i would believe that is the cost get there that people are praying over and putting flowers on and this would be the final resting place eventually in court i'm on the early morning it's about 7 am a little bit after 7 am in iran at the moment just to remind everything we're seeing certainly in the iranians point of view is coming back to this the killing of general tsunami some more analysis now face a less than about the who is a former iraqi ambassador to the united states who spoke to us earlier he says he

fears iran and the u.s. are unwilling at this stage in this is building a what candy was saying to engage in the diplomacy required.