us not forget it's it gives a bad messages about iraq itself in a front in front of the world mohammad marandi from your perspective what stories of these pictures tell any we've heard the reaction from iran calling the u.s. attempt to blame it for the protests audacious. i think the biggest problem that the united states has and it's not only limited to iraq is its arrogance the fact that americans can buy iraqi forces and murder thousands of iraqi soldiers heroes who are fighting against isis along the border with syria some of them inside syria which was very far away from the base where the americans claim that they were involved in some attack and again even that is problematic the americans are both a judge jury and executioner so the americans show no regard for iraqi sovereignty they attack iraq the war heroes and they have no respect for the iraqi government and that is the story of the united states presence in this part of the world for many decades now and for the americans to call these people or pundits to say iranian back to you right these are iraqis with iraqi id cards and the

taken down without warning or explanation you tube though did later restore the page say ad mohammad marandi again told us it's far from the 1st time he has received such treatment from social media while they were suspended on the number of occasions for photos including a photo of myself during the iran iraq war it was a minister spend it for a couple of months and then again for a photo that i put up for one of my commanders during the war who was seriously ill because of the chemical weapons ironically the chemical weapons that the united states and the europeans gave to saddam hussein i was also again my account was suspended for that and on the couple of other occasions for similar reasons and then just suddenly the whole account was disabled without any explanation all together and i'm not even very active on facebook i mean the what i put on my twitter account i put the same on facebook and. the intolerance is on the rise in the united states and in the west towards any alternative use. in other news from around the world this hour israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is on a vi

the reaction now from inside iran live to politics professor find mohammad marandi from toronto university welcome to the program now it's a new low between the united states and iran is being described as bringing the team to the brink of war just how serious is this in your opinion for this was an act of war the americans killed a high ranking iranian official a number of his colleagues and also i should add in stress a high ranking iraqi military official both war heroes both responsible for defeating isis in iraq. and general stolen money when the americans and their allies were bringing in tens of thousands of foreign fighters into syria extremist with one hobby ideology in order to undermine syria and destroy syria. he after the 10s of thousands of troops had been brought in began a defense of the capital and helped bring push back the these western and saudi and foreign pact extremists so if it wasn't for general stolen money there probably wouldn't be a syria today and there would be black flags over them ask us thanks to the united states and its allies and if it wasn't for genera

to be a continuation of the platforms campaign to silence pro iranian voices professor sayid mohammad marandi told us facebook's claims that he violated its community standards were just a pretext. think of anything that i publish that would be. unacceptable . to the state. the links that i put on no there is no everything everything is on twitter actually more active on twitter than i am on facebook my twitter account is there for anyone to see if anyone who wants to see what i've read they can look at twitter and see if what i've written is dangerous or not. this is mention coincides with the taking down of the international website of independent iranian news agency farce after it apparently fell foul of us think sions pars added it had received a message from its server company which said the site had been blocked on u.s. orders and another case this month press t.v. an english language t.v. network based in the iran had its you tube account removed staff at the tehran funded channel so it was taken down without warning or explanation you tube though did later restore the page said mohamm

a very breaking news story frank said all right let's now bring in in fact professor sayyid mohammad marandi from the university. tiran always good to see him on the program who is likely to be responsible for this leaving us to knock it appeared as though tensions have eased somewhat after the turning of the ukrainian jet on whedon's. i think the iraqi people have already shown their extreme hostility towards the united states in this occupation and the funerals for the iranian as well as the iraqi generals and commanders who were the who are war heroes in fighting isis who were also murdered by the americans through acts of war basically against iran in iraq i think those huge numbers that participate in the present us participated in the funeral and they showed that the united states is deeply despise so the iraqi resistance to u.s. occupation is going to increase i believe and americans will try to scapegoat iran but i think they cannot hide from the reality that it's iraqis who want the americans out the difference between the occupation now and the occupation 10 years ago when the amer

i'd leave say an mohammad marandi i'm afraid we're going to have to leave it there politics professor at tehran university thank you for joining us on the program. and just a quick reminder for any of you just tuning in that iran fired dozens of ballistic missiles and bases housing u.s. forces any rock and the iranian military called it revenge for the death of major general samani and that's your news wrap up for this hour will be back in about 30 minutes thanks for tuning in. so what we've got to do is identify the threats that we have it's crazy for them to you shouldn't let it be an arms race interviews on off and spearing dramatic development only really i'm going to resist i don't see you how's that strategy will be successful it's very critical daryn time to sit down and talk. this is boom bust broadcasting around the world and covering all aspects of business and how it affects our daily lives i'm christiane washington and here's a look at what we have in store today to go and caper take yet another turn as japan has issued an arrest warrant for golems wife we take another loo

we just seem to have lost mohammad marandi there if we get him back we will come back to him in the main tell us more bring you some more reaction that we're getting we're getting reaction as it's coming in of course to this and so much as it is these days comes across on twitter now the un special rapporteur. has condemned the killings she tweeted that targeted killings of some sort of money and. hondas are most likely unlawful and violates international human rights law outside the context of active hostilities in the use of drones or other means for targeted killing is almost never likely to be illegal let's discuss the consequences of that now with hillary mann leverett who's a former white house national security official she's currently see a poet political risk consultancy and joins us live from washington d.c. it's nice to have you back with us you've been with us throughout this story of course as it's developed i really want to get your response to that tweet we've seen from the un's special rapporteur who says very clearly she considers this unlawful a violation of internation

we begin today's show in tehran, where we are joined by mohammad marandi. he is a professor of english literature and orientalism at the university of tehran. he was part of the nuclear deal negotiations in 2015. first, professor, if you can respond to what took place last night, early this morning, with basesttacking two iraqi that housed u.s. and iraqi bases, warning iran in advavanc, and killing g one. >> i think the most important messssage that the iranians were sending to the u united statates --t we can file missileles fire missiles at your bases and yoyou cannnnot intererce any of th. this was thehe most important military base in iraq. missiles wentnian through the american defefense shield, which surrounund all militaryry bases, especially inn air base. and d he reachched their tararg. i think k that is an important message because it means basically that all-american bases in the p persian gulf regn are vulnerablele, and all those countries, perhaps more importantltly, t that are hostig amamerican baseses, are vulnerae to missiles and there is no

american embassy in iraqi government is located is in lockdown right now politics professor mohammad marandi from to run university told us this attack is far more than aggression. this was an act of war the americans killed a high ranking iranian official that wasn't for a general stolen money there probably wouldn't be a syria today and there would be black fly over damascus thanks to the united states and its allies and if it wasn't for general stolen money probably there wouldn't be in iraq today and the capital over the capital we would have had the black sides of isis iraqis except for those bath who supported saddam hussein in isis support. who are celebrating the overwhelming majority of iraqis supports general salomone and are grateful to them for helping save the country wherever the united states goes and destroys its all for its all to defend democracy and freedom and the american people which is our nonsense this is the language of a racist euro centric heritage that we've we've been seeing for the last few centuries the same language that we that existed in the 19th the 20th ce

amongst them over really and of turned out in cities across the country to honor the general side mohammad marandi a professor of politics a to run university told us the america has failed the iraqi people. it disregards sovereignty did its work are the government they disregard the people of iraq their their utter arrogant behavior is has made the whole region outraged and then they wonder why people hate america but wasn't for a general sort of money there probably wouldn't be a syria today and there would be black flags over damascus thanks to the united states and its allies and if it wasn't for general spending money probably there wouldn't be in iraq today and the capital over the capital we would have had the black sides of isis. iraqis except for those who supported saddam hussein and isis supporters who are celebrating the overwhelming majority of iraqis support general saleh money and are grateful to him for helping save the country wherever the united states goes and destroys its all for its all to defend democracy and freedom and the american people which is all nonsense here maybe sp

talking the us around conflict i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi and put on he's a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have christopher and i when he is for. under of american veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with a monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate when home and let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the united states iran and the entire region and we're going to talk a lot about iraq here where things stand right now because if we look at it from tweets and what not you know our iran has decided to stand down how do you feel about that being interim go ahead. i think iran feels that trump stood down because when the iranians. launch the missiles all of them passed through the air defenses and hit their targets so they were both accurate and the americans were unable to intercept them so

professor mohammad marandi is an iranian—american academic and political analyst at tehran universityking to my colleague shaun ley, he accused america of "arrogantly using its power" and said it will pay a heavy price for taking out general soleimani. —— for killing. if a foreign country was to assassinate a high—ranking british military official, what would the response in britain be? so what the americans have done is unheard of in contemporary history and this is the arrogance of power and i think there is no way that anyone in the world can justify this sort of action. if from now on the americans can be judge, jury and executioner, the iranians can tomorrow say the americans or the saudis are going to carry out an attack, we're going to attack the saudis, or the emiratis are about to carry out an attack, we're gonig to bomb the united arab emirates. that's the law of the jungle. if that's what western countries want, that's what they're going to get. let me put to you something said to me at the beginning of last week by a former undersecretary at the us state department in the

syud mohammad marandi is a professor of tehran university we asked him who may have been responsible for the a turk and what the motive was well we don't know what this attack was about what the jet that was but this was it with the but the general resistance the united states as indigenous the iraqi parliament under duress from the americans they still voted to expel the americans the americans threatened the parliamentarians they told them will take away your assets will put you on the sanctions list so it is really up to the americans to decide that their own state in iraq iran has no soldiers in iraq iran has no military bases in fact most of iran's relationship with iraq is tourism and trade and the americans are sanctioning anyone and everyone who carries out trade with iranian business men and women so that obviously makes iraqis even more angry because they are making that konami to creation for the for the iraqi people more difficult just as iranians but most iraqis ignore the americans they continue to trade and they only hate the americans more for imposing their will on t

talking the us around conflict i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi in foreign he's a professor at the university of toronto.

talking the us around conflict i'm joined by my guest mohammad marandi and to him he's a professor at the university of toronto in washington we have christopher and i when he is founder of american veterans policy network and in iraq war veteran and in sydney we cross the alley risk he is a middle east expert as well as contributor with a monitor all right crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate when home and let me go to you 1st here if you were to believe the media things are settling down a little bit after this tumultuous week involving the united states iran and the entire region and we're going to talk a lot about iraq here where do things stand right now because if we look at it from tweets and whatnot you know a rand his decided to stand down how do you feel about that being interim go ahead . i think iran feels that trump stood down because when the iranians. launch the missiles all of them passed through the the air defenses and hit their targets so they were both accurate and the americans were unable to intercept them

professor mohammad marandi is an iranian—american academic and political analyst at tehran universityking to my colleague shaun ley, he accused america of "arrogantly using its power" and said it will pay the price for killing general soleimani. the attack where one american was killed, the iraqi prime minister asked the us secretary of defence to give evidence that it was these military groups that were attacked on the subsequent day, that they were behind it. the us secretary of defence refused to give the iraqi prime minister the information. the iraqi prime minister told him not to carry out the attack, he said, i am not here to consult with you, i'm here to state to you that we are going to carry out an attack and then the americans killed some 30 iraqi soldiers who were on the front lines against isis, 500 kilometres away from where the single american was killed. and then the americans, of course, they want to empower isis on the border between syria and iraq because they want to strangle the syrian government because that is their long—term policy objective, but then the ameri

scapegoat iran the americans are not going to get anywhere we'll leave it on that point thank you mohammad marandi joining us there from the university of tehran just just quickly. to get a comment from you just about what we've heard there particularly this question about the sovereignty of iraq. iran doesn't have troops in there but it does have proxies who fight iran's direction inside iraq if we're talking about iraqi sovereignty is iraq exercising that sovereignty. look absolutely i think this is the biggest question of all questions facing the united states and iran at this point in time it's not some kind of an issue in the abstract in the end of the day this is going to boil down to iraq because yes there is regional security there is gulf security there's oil in there's security there's american and iranian security but this in real terms is going to boil down to what's next for iraq and if iraq is capable of exercising that sovereignty doing a proxy study i mean in the abstract or an occupied style in the abstract of course they are and they're who they were before one of the more sovere

right there are more complications than initially meets the eye we'll have to leave it there mohammad marandi thank you for speaking to us from tehran. scientists are urging the total evacuation of nearly a 1000000 people living close to an erupting volcano in the philippines. volcanic tremors have been felt in nearby areas tens of thousands of are already fled their homes since love started spewing on sunday all because of the geography experts have warned of what they call a volcanic tsunami that's when the force from a violent under. water eruption causes destructive waves and in an explosive eruption magma violently spews out instead of losing out this along with heavy ash and tremors has caused the mass evacuation of tens of thousands of people while it's been dormant for 40 years tall has erupted 33 times since 1572 in 1011 an eruption killed more than 1300 people in general and oregon is an province where people have been evacuated so. we are you know going see how currently in crisis we had just arrived about 10 minutes ago when we were told that we cannot go any further and there are

that is professor seyed mohammad marandi, speaking to us from the university of tehran.ped on what always was going to bea developed on what always was going to be a super saturday for all the wrong reasons because a number of elements have come together media logically to make this a devastating date —— media logically. i want to show you the extent of those target read, how hot is it? giving you some of the recent numbers, 47 is only just to the western side of sydney andi just to the western side of sydney and i have to tell you that a little bit further south down in canberra, they have just smashed their all—time computer record, it was 42.2 and they have gone up to 43.6dc today. it is the extent of the heat on saturday but notice where those darker colours and i will show you now sunday. they become a little bit more confined, further north up towards queensland where they have had a crushing drought for years and yea rs. had a crushing drought for years and years. this is not a new phenomenon by any means across australia. those call the colour is beginning to see

let‘s go live to tehran and join professor sayed mohammad marandi who is the chair of american studiesised that the americans and the canadians are using this as a political tool to score points. in fa ct, political tool to score points. in fact, they take —— the canadian prime ministerjustin trudeau spoke about working with his colleagues to resolve this. there is talk of some sort of conflict that everything has to be reviewed. there is a standard protocol, a plane crashed, there will be investigators links to other countries that have something involved, either citizens or those who built the plane or parts of the plane. they will be involved in the investigation and that includes iran because it fell on iranian territory. so far, the canadian prime minister has provided no evidence. the clips that we seem, despite the fact that the western media says it was hit by missiles, there is no signs of missiles or especially two missiles in the clips, and therefore, they ran ian‘s feel justified that the clips, and therefore, they ran ian‘s feeljustified that the suicidal —— psychological