strike that killed the iranian general salim ahmed well fallout from the assassination is rippling right across the middle east iran's vying to hit back and has also announced it will no longer abide by any of the a commitments it made under the 2015 nuclear deal meanwhile in lebanon hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah says all u.s. bases warships and soldiers are now fair targets and calls for revenge are growing louder especially among the hundreds of thousands of people mourning customs sort of mani during his funeral in iran well we begin with al jazeera as a solid binge of aid in baghdad.

expect that will continue in the coming months how do you see it well i think after the killing of salim ahmed the box was wide open but now after the so-called revenge attack of the iranians it has been a bit more closed but that doesn't mean that things are going to calm down totally i think we're going to see a lot of also from the iranian side also in view of elevating their leverage in view of possible negotiations with the united states that is in the realm of possibilities according to what also trump said. well i think the situation today is less dramatic than it was yesterday which is good but as we have to from play as inside. each field we might not be sure that this is not going to run again thank you very much to dive a bit deeper on all of those points let us now take a look at who custom so the money was and why his killing has provoked such outrage in iran. next to supreme leader. he was the most important man in iran he pulled the strings in the background his mission to extend iran's influence in the region and to irritate the enemy the usa . his tool brigades iran special fo

strike that killed the iranian general salim ahmed well fallout from the assassination is rippling right across the middle east iran's vying to hit back and has also announced it will no longer abide by any of the a commitments it made under the 2015 nuclear deal meanwhile in lebanon hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah says all u.s. bases warships and soldiers are now fair targets and calls for revenge are growing louder especially among the hundreds of thousands of people mourning customs and a mani during his funeral in iran well we begin with al jazeera as a sort of binge of aid in baghdad. and to us in pro iran chance in the iraqi parliament elected representatives came together for an extraordinary session the iraqi pm laid out his preferred option after the assassination of buttons in the money by american missiles well paid in heart the larger the whole world at 1st ending the presence of foreign forces as an emergency measure and making arrangements for that secondly to go back to the draft decision that was put forward to the parliament before the current government took office. b

battle going on between the sunni and the shia there's a shia crescent we talked about general salim ahmed back then and iran's transnational terrorist networks and they said they need 400 years to work this out give us a call when it's over otherwise stay out and i am interested when you look at a lot of the proxy conflicts in the region you look at saudi iranian competition turkey competition in the region whether or not nato is too full of itself to think that it can inject itself easily into these conflicts and even stabilize them given their scale i think you're making some important points and it gets back to it and i was saying this is almost in a way about u.s. leadership nato is engagement in the middle east is predicated on a durable predictable u.s. leadership policy and we know what happens when the united states removes itself see syria see libya russia fills that vacuum iran fills that vacuum instability continues to grow nato can do more i think there would be the political willingness to do more because our european allies are directly impacted by instability in the middle

very who's joining us now from iran that's where the ceremony to celebrate the life of general salim ahmed has just begun give us an indication outside of what's going to be happening today. well iran is still in a period of religious mourning and these ceremonies take case usually 3 days after somebody dies another one after 7 days another one after 40 days that currently the ceremony is in the run not far from the affairs of the supreme leader many where hearing you the g.'s of the money where hearing poetry being sung and just remembering his life but it's important to note who's in attendance so we have the president rouhani we've had the foreign minister divides raef we have the heads of the revolutionary guard we have representatives from lebanon's hizbullah and also representatives from iraq's political factions now this goes to show the individual general carson for the money and he's influenced and where he operated remember he was a general of the of goods force which is an arm of the revolutionary guard the other could force deals with operations outside of the country and he wa