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 has 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 well as the united states says it wants to negotiate it's not allowing a man who could allow for some of those negotiations into the country so if 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 is 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 of and putting flowers on and this would be the final resting place eventually in come on the early morning it's about 7 am a little bit after 7 am in iran at the moment just a reminder 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 list 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 and this is building a what candy was saying to engage in the diplomacy required to deescalate tension. from a legal perspective the united states and iran certainly are a war they have have been sort of in a proxy war the term proxy now has to be removed now politically diplomatically that doesn't mean that we are fated or to have a general war between the 2 of there would of necessity be an asymmetric one between iran and the united states this does not mean that there cannot be as they say off from the both sides have to be willing to engage in diplomacy and right now i fear that i do not see that i do not see either side the iranian or the american willing to do the things necessary to engage in diplomacy apparently the

iraqi prime minister was trying to play the role of an intermediary before all of this between saudi arabia and iran since these events have taken place some of the gulf states have tried to enter mediate between the united states and iran one or the other or both parties are going to need to take advantage of those opportunities to take us off what is a very dangerous escalation for the region for everyone of the region it's a little after 6 30 am now in baghdad 7 in teheran and 10 30 pm in washington d.c. on canal santamaria continuing coverage here on al-jazeera of developments out of the gulf this wednesday this is what's happened iran's launch more than a dozen ballistic missiles at joint u.s. erakat facilities in iraq 2 bases targeted at least one of them an air bale in the north the up as the. base in anbar province and in addition iran's revolutionary

guard has issued a warning to israel and to other u.s. allies in the region saying they will be attacked if their countries are used for strikes against teheran. and then on top of that the f.a.a. that is the us federal aviation authority has now banned u.s. airlines from flying over this area this means a space in iraq that's donald trump's tweet from earlier will come back to that little bit later but we're talking about airspace in iraq iran the gulf of oman and the waters between iran and saudi arabia which basically means the gulf itself it is sizing up the potential for miscalculation of misidentifications so this is flight right at $24.00 i believe this was at 100 hours g.m.t. witches' 2 and a half hours ago now a lot of congestion you say sort of down to the bottom of the screen you see qatar there but united arab emirates these are big hubs which a lot of u.s. airlines do fly into and for a cutter is ready as well you can or you remember that there is

a blockade in place which means not flying over saudi arabia all the u.a.e. so any limitations over iraq and iran will. tighten that bottleneck even further it's such a busy part of the world aviation wise this is come from the f.a.a. i should point out the u.s. aviation authority for u.s. carriers but we wait to see if it is extended beyond that in fact we heard from aviation analyst called a little bit earlier he's explaining why and what impact this will have have a listen. basically means is the f.d.a. is being proactive in protecting the airspace and ensuring that u.s. based aircraft and aircraft flying over the region are safe because there are obviously there have been missiles launched listing missiles and they're being very proactive here in ensuring safe operation of aircraft in the region in fact we have to keep in mind also that there are countermeasures so if it's a ballistic missile is launched you know the opponents actually have defensive

measures on the ground to try to intercept those missiles that are being launched and quite often those are seeking missiles so also if those are if an airliner is giving off the heat signature from its engines it could possibly interfere with the countermeasures what's intercepting the missile and in fact a commercial aircraft flying overhead and reading that would primarily affect i would think you know long range international flights where you might have some kind of fuel constraints for a long haul flights but you know i think for for sure sure hope flights i think it pretty much will be business as usual for the most part but yet obviously there will be some lost time for. some quite minor diversions as a result of this air airspace thing was my feeling is you know there's a lot of uncertainty now on if there is or if there's not going to be a reaction until the f.a.a.

is confident that everything is settled down as far as the possibility of any projectiles or or or any kind of arms going up into the air through the airspace when that risk is 100 percent eliminated i feel that the f.d.a. will you know possibly well will lift the restriction on commercial aircraft as far as restrictions go i'm not aware of any typically no fly zones in the. area where for example if security is less lax in a particular area based on you know a civil unrest or a conflict the state department will put out directives to u.s. passengers were warning them. of the particular activity that that that is happening such as civil unrest. or or or any kind of oh you know war activity and that would be issued by usually the u.s. department of state so that's just another layer if you like to add to things the

fact that the u.s. federal aviation authority is limiting airspace for u.s. carriers in the gulf at the moment keep a close and that we'll check in with the flight read a 24 in a bit and see if there has been any sort of change particularly in the u.s. carriers at the center of all this obviously is a conflict between the united states and iran the moment which is playing out in iraq we're going to talk to us who is a senior fellow at the national iranian american council on scott from california thank you for your time. central to this and i was talking to our correspondent about this before is whether you view this as retaliation or escalation iran is being very clear to say this is retaliation these rocket attacks are retaliation for the killing of general cause and so the money but it's whether or not the united states and particularly don't trump chooses to view it as that. absolutely and to give credit to president from credit is due to his reaction on twitter cool

and quite different it seems to be restrained. there is a sort of reassuring tone though still very concerning to have to wait till the morning to hear what the united states intends to do and so have to wait until then to have a successful and full assessment and a full detail of what actually happened we have to be very careful not to jump to any conclusions there were earlier reports that there were 30 casualties now we're saying there doesn't seem to be casualties so we don't have all the information to draw conclusions in terms of the iranian side and it would be you know why i think about iranian decisions not just in this situation that we're seeing now but over the last year and a half since the united states pulled out of the nuclear deal iran has taken very clear measured steps after that the united states with a nuclear deal and it seems as though this is another very carefully measured retaliation it was explicitly stated by your own score mr jevons that you that this

was a retaliation that you don't does not suggest solution and does not seek war so we'll have the united states assessing the crisis of his retaliate and there's escalation and there's a 3rd prong which could be diplomacy do you see any room for diplomacy given the fact that jevons arrays can't get into the united states at the moment same seekonk get a visa and might pump a 0 even though he is technically the chief diplomat of the united states is probably not the most diplomatic player. there's always room for diplomacy and that's because you can be with the united states in your own have done in the past is there a 3rd parties who can facilitate that diplomacy and unfortunately because of what's happened since the united states with iran those channels for diplomacy have been closed but there's always room for diplomacy before we get a conflict it's very important to remind ourselves that this is not it will still conflict with the same thing that we went on ourselves just 5 days ago when the

u.s. assassination of us and so when he was carried out this is still not a full scale conflict and that has to be emphasized there's still a road critical to see to know the idea of diplomacy looking at what you want announced at in terms of the d.c.p. a way iran did not quit the d.c.p. away they the decision that they made to reduce their last limitation was something that they decided before the assassination of so long so this was again a series of steps that iran had planned to take specifically in their statement they said that if sanctions were lifted and all parties are trying to do it they would return as well so that means the framework of the deal is still in place and that deal is emblematic of diplomacy. who can play that diplomatic role i believe i've read in the pos that switzerland's been involved the classic neutral player who else is got some leverage with either sagal but sides at the moment. you know all along has played a role as mediator in the past you have japan has tried to play

a rule the french president has tried to play a role at this point really any party that in unity can clean the 2 sides should intervene because whatever conflict whatever escalation could occur is not something that will be isolated to iran and the united states of course everybody knows that it will have extreme will back within the region itself but the consequences go further than this is really an issue of global impact and so we need those parties to intervene. assad ra joining us from california she's with the national iranian american council great to talk to you thank you and. so we're talking about the possibility for diplomacy there but clearly there is military action 1st and foremost in the moment and earlier the pentagon said it expected iran to retaliate against the united states though secretary defense marcus was calling for deescalation he warns the u.s. is prepared to end any war with iran let me reiterate that the united states is not

seeking a war with iran but we are prepared to finish one we are seeking a diplomatic solution but 1st this will require iran to deescalate it will require the regime to come to the table with the goal of preventing further bloodshed and it will require them to cease their malign activities throughout the region as i've said we're open to having this discussion with them but we are just as prepared to deliver a forceful response to defend our interests earlier we heard from mark kimmitt who is a former assistant secretary for political military affairs that was out of the george w. bush administration he gave us some insight into how the u.s. government will be responding to these attacks. i think they're sitting in the situation room right now they'll also have the cia director in there they'll have a couple of other key policy making people inside there and they're deciding what to do right now in terms of the response of course will 1st want to hear from the

commanders on the ground they'll have those people on a. v.p. see inside of there and they're going to ask for everybody's opinion and then the president will make the decision i would suspect their options could well be a air strike against those facilities that fired the missiles. i think that would be the most probable they may do some other additional targets such as i'm speculating now some of the speedboats in the persian gulf some of the other military facilities where they may have been training some of the proxies inside of iraq but you can be sure that the target packages that need to be developed for these kind of operations have have already been completed and have been sitting on the shelf for quite some time now but what i find interesting is that there doesn't seem to be any hue and cry from the iraqi government right now talking about the violation of sovereignty we have pictures of the ayatollah looking at

a screen is these missiles that are being fired from iraq from iran into iraq so without a doubt that was happening so i think it's reciprocal and also just rely on the director of the center for middle east studies at the university of oklahoma spoke to us and explained why he believes iran won't give in to the u.s. pressure. iran is committed to escalating. zarif the foreign minister and others made it very clear months ago. that iran could not afford to capitulate to the united states because they believe the united states wants regime change and would crush them so they have to escalate ever since president trying to scuttle the you know there has been a steady chip for escalation and that you know neither side can afford to give in because oh look weak the leaders of both sides have committed to this escalation and isc it's hard to see how it how it gets you know where the off ramp means and

how people can deescalate you can quibble about what kind of government iraq has and certainly there are some iraqis who are happier today than they were under saddam hussein but the you know the basic fact is that the united states in order to destroy the order that was in iraq under saddam hussein cast the sunni arabs from the top of society down to the bottom and catapulted the shiite arabs who are at the bottom of society previously under saddam hussein 60 percent of the population to the top and gave them the government. and the government is run by shiites today they have a majority in parliament and they voted for america to get out they are sympathetic to slow money they're sympathetic to iran the shiites i am long in iraq look at ceylon each eliminate as a hero he came in he saved them from isis sweeping in possibly going to take

baghdad and in 2014 he organized the shiite militias he armed them he helped iran helped them to turn back isis so did america but many people are grateful to so muscly money for that now sunni arabs many of them look at silly money as a criminal in the same way that george that excuse me in the same way that president trumped us but iraq is divided the thing is that the shiites have the majority and they voted and they are sympathetic to by and large to simply money and that's something going to america did they did not understand america did not understand iraqi realities and that's been borne out time after time we've miscalculated at almost every turn now in amongst all of this news some more breaking news to bring you a ukrainian plane has crashed this is with ukraine international airlines and it has crashed coincidentally in iran to take off from khomeini airport's reuters is

reporting its crash due to technical problems iran civil aviation authority saying this happened shortly after takeoff and we believe $180.00 passengers and crew aboard so that is a ukrainian airline a ukraine international airlines. also happens to be a boeing 737 not a boeing 737 max as far as i can see which we of course know has been caught up in 2 other fatal plane crashes but this is a boeing 737 ukrainian international airlines it's taken off from a mom clemente airport in teheran and crashed shortly after takeoff that's all we know at the moment and we'll bring you more on that and hopefully actually outside vegas with us in tehran hopefully will be able to bring us more on it a little bit later on in the meantime bring us up to date with well i guess reaction now out of terror as it is early morning there now after the rocket

attacks overnight. yes the sun coming up in iran and people will be waking up to the news that iran has retaliated and many people here is that's what they wanted that's what they've been asking for out on the streets and there was immense public pressure on the political establishment here to react to seek revenge for the assassination of got some sort of money and that's exactly what they've done but the foreign minister devolves raef did tweet out and he said that this was an action taken under article $51.00 of the u.n. charter and he said that iran does not seek escalation or war but will defend themselves under aggression now the iran's revolutionary guard have also issued a statement they've warned any regional country to host united states bases that if an attack is launched against iran from those bases then those countries would

become a target they've also said that they don't differentiate between israel and the united states so there's a threat that they will be dragged into this if the united states retaliate now we know that there were 2 waves of attacks around 1 32 am the 1st wave local time. talking that u.s. base in iraq. and the 2nd attack took place around a hour and a half after that now we've seen images of the supreme need to know how many looking at screens apparently looking at the launches all over see that but we know that this retaliation that this revenge goes right to the very top to the how many himself had said that there would be revenge that there would be retaliation for the assassination of general cos and so the money and things have changed in iran and back in november there were widespread anti-government protests because of this assassination because of the personality of general glosson for the money and how

popular he was there has been widespread support for him but also the political establishment here and here because of the money was just being buried tonight his funeral was postponed because there was a stampede yesterday in his home city of mine but he's just been buried and this is a statement from iran because they had to respond a frost a story they could not remain silent after one of the top generals the 2nd most popular person in iran was assassinated by the united states the wording is so important isn't it and you've been talking about and they run into me talking about retaliation and they see it as retaliation for a very specific event of course and so the money it is up to others how they interpret it isn't it and by others i mean the united states because they could well see it as escalation.

absolutely iran has been very specific that this is retaliation for a single event and that is assassination of custom so the money not how the united states reacts to this will determine what takes place because it is a threat of a wider conflict a war in the region and although the united states has overwhelming firepower iran does have the ability to change the face of the middle east they have they have proxies and militias in iraq they have the hutu rebels in yemen they have militias in syria they have his beloved in lebanon but also let's not forget where iran is position region this the strait of for most where 20 percent of the world's or the passes through and it's most narrow point between iran and oman it's 33 kilometers wide and actually the shipping lanes are only 3 kilometers wide so essentially iran has all this said that if they wanted to could squoze the strait of hormuz it's not

sure how long they would be able to maintain that but it would have a global impact player and also said that they have the ability to talking 90 states bases in the region now the best possible scenario could be that the united states say that there's not much damage there's been no casualties and they don't retaliate to iran both parties save face and it goes back to normal hostilities words tweets as you've been seeing but no military action that's the best possible scenario but if the united states does react does me tell you to iran's missile strikes that have taken place here this morning that iran will be forced as they've said to escalate this. ok assad begs in teheran. thank you so much for that so as we approach the top of the hour on

al-jazeera let's just remind you of the developments as that happened assad has been telling us about retaliatory air strikes from iran or shouldn't strikes the same missile attacks in iraq these are the pictures of them we've been sort of running them but it's really worth having a good look at them the lights in the sky of the missiles this is over the. air base it is an iraqi facility asama benj of aid was pointing out earlier a chorus one in baghdad that there are no u.s. bases in iraq now there are iraqi bases with u.s. personnel there and that's what this is and that's the aftermath of saddam there was also an attack on a base in bill as well it's quite something actually looking at those pictures isn't it in the night sky all that smoke and fire from the dozens of iranian missiles that were fired into iraq so that's what we've seen there let's not forget that this is a retaliatory attack the iranians the iranians say for the killing of general constance eliminate his being laid to rest today these are the live pictures from

his home city of perm on the burial was supposed to happen yesterday it was of course postponed by that terrible stampede that killed upwards of 40 people so today it is continuing and we've seen pictures of the cost you see the pictures. of general sort of money everywhere there through monday in the early morning in iran coming up 830 i think almost 8 30 in the morning in iran as well so that's what we're seeing from iran as well the other developments that there is a. limitation from the u.s. federal aviation authority on u.s. carriers moving through the gulf at the moment they are concerns that they could be misidentified and this is flight radar 24 at the moment having a look. that the airspace above the gulf also the gulf of oman iran and iraq that area now limited by the federal aviation authority to u.s.

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