of its top general in an american drone strike well for more on this we can now bring in life daniel mcadams she's executive director of the zone the pull and she let daniel thanks for joining on us on this the pentagon has confirmed that 2 facilities housing u.s. forces have been hit by iran those facilities all in iraq how serious is this escalation plus i think it's it's very serious because it depends on the u.s. reaction there's been reports that u.s. f. 35 have taken off from bases in turkey i don't know if they're confirmed or denied but how far will try as coolly this and i think if we step back and look at the origin of this there was a suppose that american military contractor a single person in a base killed by someone we don't know who was that the u.s. blames iran backed militias for or about to start world war 3 over this unnamed person they won't tell us who was they won't tell us what kinds of missions they think solar money was on there are a lot of things that the american side won't tell us we know that there's a long history of them lobbying about iraq lying about iran ly

daniel mcadams will be a really in military war and it has dozens of potential targets for reprisal attacks the strait of hormuz is a vital point for the west and a large number of american destroyers and warships cross their crucial american targets in the region have been identified by iran some 35 u.s. targets in the region as well as to leave our within our reach. very healthy come on to the program edmund ghareeb edmund is a middle east expert and historian welcome to the program there is speculation surrounding who could be of course behind these rocket attacks today on the bases in baghdad and further afield indeed in iraq iran or pro or rhenium militias are generally suspected what's your take. well there is no doubt that from the beginning what we have heard up at least the from the united states administration what we have been listening to the secretary of state the scripter of defense hold through even the president and many other officials in the u.s. government that have pointed the finger at. iran they laid the blame have the door of iran regardless of whether it was iran who