my guest, douglas silliman, was us ambassador in iraq until one year ago.s trump have a strategy? if so, what is it? ambassador doug silliman in washington, dc, welcome to hardtalk. steven, i'm very happy to be here. well, you have a very special perspective of what's happened over from your perspective, does the assassination of qasem soleimani in baghdad appear to you both lawful and wise? i must say first of all, i'm not going to address the question of whether it is lawful or unlawful because i'm not an expert in international law or a particularly good diplomatic historian. looking at this from the standpoint of president trump and the trump administration, he seems to prefer shaking up the situation to see how the chips fall and then try to make things go his way on the back end. i think certainly with the killing of qasem soleimani, and also the killing of the chief iranian lieutenant, abu mahdi al—muhandis, inside iraq, he has certainly shuffled the deck and made things a little bit more interesting on the back end. shuffle the deck, you say — it's

a sense of the mood among the people as they went to attend the better service and as a general silliman he was laid to rest. the burial ceremony was postponed because of the stand it for now he's not going to be buried today or at this and these hours they are going to announce the exact date or time of the burial there but the people are all shocked and. hearts are broken because of the tragic incident all. for revenge against the u.s. assassination of the reigning commander because as i mentioned he was in my opinion the 2nd most awful man in iran after the supreme leader so. so you're saying is a mixture of grief and anger and there's not castigate instead on thank you very much for being us up to date on the situation in quetta man for the funeral of jenin silly money has been postponed. by now the silliman is killing has raised tensions in the region his assassination has caused an outpouring of pub the grief and anger as we just heard also against the u.s. iran says it will seek revenge for the killing. revered in life martyred in death. hundreds of thousands of mourners witnessed

are more link or the loved ones well right after the united states assassinated iran's top general silliman there were wise fred anti american protests there was an outpouring of nationalist pride and now it's just a few days later we're seeing these protests against the iranian regime professor what do you make of this shift. i'm not very surprised because i think people are wise people they were trying to show the world that they don't want war that their agents the fact that the united states to arm itself to the sas and the 2nd most powerful person in iraq but at the same turn against this regime for its corruption incompetence and for the way treats iranian people for the fact that they've now are they try to hide complicity in in this. market will. event and the 2 are contradictory but at the same found or at the same complex iranian response to a very complicated situation we have a new one today. well we have seen the iranian revolutionary guards actually issue an apology to the nation and they say they take full responsibility for the accidental downing of the plane i mean this is

when it comes to the iran nuclear deal when it comes to the recent killing of the iranian general silliman which russia also called reckless and today they will be hoping to kind of bring in germany that important partner as thomas said on the side so speaking of the iran nuclear deal will go back to utah most germany russia wants to salvage this but iran has said in light of what's been happening with the u.s. it's scrapping its nuclear enrichment limits dictated by the agreement what can russia and germany do about the germany's foreign minister said that germany still wants the iran nuclear deal but it is not willing to simply stand by and watch while iran takes step steps away from the iran nuclear deal i mean it's important and that's probably why one issue that will be discussed is exactly how they can try and make sure that iran complies as much as possible with the iran nuclear deal another issue that is particularly well. peace here in germany has sometimes been developing bones would we sometimes is that idea that donald trump resented that maybe another deal should be discussed

president about various options it was his view that this was legal because in his words general silliman these was do he also give a bit of a contradiction as well because he said there is an off ramp for iran here they don't have to go down the road of retaliation but they could come to the table and he said we are ready to talk with no preconditions but he also added at some point iran has to stop its malign influence in the region america will get to define that if they wanted to see iran there but we know the iranians have already said that they have absolutely no intention of talking to the united states will sanctions are still in place they have said consistently that they have to be lifted before they would even sit down and talk to don't trump they're also interested in perhaps waiting this out they believe that if there is a democrat in the white house after the election in november 2020 then perhaps the democrats will move back towards the nuclear deal that don't. trump and his administration walked away from and you remember the donald trump campaign for that during the last

this is the hometown of kasim silliman ie the general killed by a us military drone last friday his funeral procession soon turned tragic as dozens were trampled to death. these mourners never expected the nation's loss to be overridden by their own. at a hospital a desperate search for missing relatives feared trapped in the stampede. same with. we were at the ceremony and people rushed towards us so that i had to run away. but then a bike went over my foot breaking it just shows. what. we will give our lives for general solomonic and we will eventually. anguish for a man they considered a mata. anger towards the killers of a national hero. thousands also turned out in neighboring iraq at the funeral of. an ally of iran who was killed in the same u.s. airstrike. the shouting death to america iranian lawmaker has have been quick to pass a law declaring those involved insulin my niece death as terrorists. i mean all men all those involved in this crime who are with the pentagon and the u.s. military are counted as terrorists however in washington there was no backing down in the event there

army will pay the price for killing silliman e his warn that u.s. troops military bases and ships in the region will be targeted and hundreds of thousands of people have been flooding the streets across iran to walk alongside the casket carrying ceremonies remains his body will be taken to his hometown of care mon for burial on tuesday while we have 3 reporters standing by to cover all angles of this story. is in washington d.c. june is in the lebanese capital beirut we begin in baghdad where we have osama been javid osama the last 3 hours have been extraordinary in the iraqi parliament vote to expel foreign troops from iraq tell us about the reactions. well folly the parliament has he did the call by its prime ministers saying that it is time for them to review and send the troops that are on the rocky soil back to their homes this is a resolution that was passed by a predominantly the shia majority of the parliament it is interesting that now that they have asked the foreign troops to leave the country it is in the government's court now to decide

silliman he was a murderer but this reckless move escalates the situation with iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and a new middle east conflict our priority must be to avoid another costly war. u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe tweeted a video showing iraqis celebrating the attack while still the money enjoyed widespread support for leading the charge to displace eisel from iraqi strongholds some iraqis blame iran for instability and interference in their country and salute money directly for the deaths of more than 500 iraqis in violent antigovernment protests which began in october feared by his enemies inside iran has for years been one of the most popular national figures in the country the international face of iranian resistance to american pressure he remained largely untouched by the waning popularity in recent years of the country's elected government over economic issues oh yeah the mom that i'm going to you will stop this war but we will be the ones to impose its and therefore you have to be careful about insulting the iranian people and the president of

jerusalem and what the strong doing about it he's recognizing israeli annexation occupation of visual silliman on the recognizing a captive president state a provisional future half a state and half of the west bank in the east of east jerusalem he's also embracing the op partied in is very palestine by accepting and recognizing israel's permanent security control over the palestinians by giving in a different name and some sort of a provisional state down the line as i said on some half of the west bank the same thing goes for the refugees they have an inalienable rights for return or compass all and compensation but basically present trump has written off the entire issue of the refugees and their rights for return and compensation and so on and so forth he's presenting all the problem as if there are solutions but they are not solutions so it's very difficult for me but i'm really trying you know hard to find some good points out there i can throw out the order to our viewers around the world and create some form of optimism of sort what by you know you say you know you can hang your hat on

base just outside of baghdad that has seen some extensive damage the operation has been dubbed mata silliman and we are hearing that the iranian president hassan rouhani will give an address later today we have however heard some of the country's foreign minister zarif who has justified the iranian strike saying that they ought to caution it in line with the u.n. charter clause that allows of course for self-determination and that he ran does not want to escalate and see a confrontation with the united states but that it will defend itself if it has to . run to conclude it proportionate measures in self-defense under article $51.00 if you are in charge or targets in base from which coldly armed attack against our citizens and senior officials were launched we do not seek escalation or war but will defend ourselves against any aggression now. awesome to hear reaction from the international community india and pakistan have both exercised or called for extreme caution urging they citizens there to avoid non essential travel to the philippines has now started a mandatory. evacuation of its citi

of mourners who have gathered there tens of thousands of course to welcome home the body of kasim silliman and we can talk to dorset jabari who joins us live from. and so doris so we've heard a lot of political comment that the mood i'm guessing where you are has been one of people simply paying their respects. yes certainly they're still waiting for the body of the late general trover. 0 body landed just a short while ago. 1 maybe. they've been waiting for hours and hours. arrive a few hours ago but because the. earlier this morning. flight. people are waiting many of them spoke to feel like they lost their spiritual father because they were proud of him and. one person told me to just that person nation was. much more of an ideology as well as a matter of their what for i don't really ever disregard. understand people are mourning but they are also very angry they want revenge that they hope their problems hold those responsible accountable for what they've done to their general marty and across this period of mourning door so we're going to see other events as well tell us what's going

would become binding if the senate also backs it trump ordered the killing of iranian general qassim silliman a vast week without congress' approval. australia's bushfire crisis is set to as high a temperatures and stronger brings on friday increases the risk across the country southeast the bushfires have claimed at least $26.00 lives and destroyed more than 2000 homes since september. military officials in mali said 25 soldiers were killed when heavily armed assailants attacked a base in news yet more than 60 suspected terrorists were also reportedly killed in the attack close to the border with mali. this is the news from berlin for more you can follow us on twitter at the news or you can visit our website did on the dot com. you're watching the dead news coming to you live from berlin coming up next we have business news stephen busy will have all the headlines for you so do with stay with us for that if you're going to remember that's more on our web site as you have your dot com has more news for you at the top of the hour see you then led by . a strong clear position some international

london when iran's supreme leader the ayatollah ali khamenei has harsh revenge over the killing of silliman he iran's foreign minister has warned appropriate retaliation is imminent . other news now we're following one of the biggest evacuations in the history of australia is now on the way and it warnings that strong winds and hot weather will worsen the raging fires tens of thousands of people are at risk for news on the web site al-jazeera dot com those are your top stories up next it's inside story. of. iran's top army commandos killed in a u.s. airstrike in iraq tehran is warning of a posh revenge. trigger a military confrontation and how would that affect the rest of the middle east this is inside story. hello and welcome to the program on darren jordan iran is vowing revenge on the u.s. for killing its top military commander in mani died when an american asteroid hit his convoy near the airport in baghdad the assassination ordered by president trump marks a dangerous escalation in tensions between the u.s. and iran well supreme leader ayatollah ali hominidae says the general was kill

commander supreme leader ayatollah ali khamenei once called him a living marcher of the revolution silliman he joined iran's revolutionary guard after the iranian revolution in 1979 he saw action in the you're on iraq or. in 1908 he became commander of the could force that conducts iran's clandestine and foreign military operations the us considered him a terrorist and blamed his could force for the deaths of hundreds of american soldiers so the money was especially active in iranian operations against rebel groups in syria against the so-called islamic state and supporting shiite militias in iraq over the years after a number of scrapes with death including an airplane crash in 2006 on a bombing in damascus in 2012 he was 62 years old when an american missile killed him in baghdad. a man do we know what this top iranian general was doing in neighboring iraq while. he was the main figure as we know that he's gathering all the troops or militia fighting against americans troops back to through 2006 and 7 he was the main figure also to train the iraqi proxy iranian proxy still to defense also

strike in baghdad on friday in tehran iran's leaders of health funeral services for general custom silliman and others killed in the strike. weeping over the remains of iran's top military commander. the supreme leader ayatollah ali how money visibly moved as he leads funeral prayers for his former close ally. hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered to pay their respects to general kasem salim money killed in a u.s. drone strike in iraq on friday. his assassination is considered a declaration of war by many iranians. speaking at her father's funeral the general's own daughter has promised reprisals par there are higher 5 other than army quite that i've asked families of american soldiers in western asia have witnessed america's humiliation and syria iraq lebanon afghanistan yemen and palestine they will spend their days waiting for the death of their children and the in the parliament there also being cries of death to america. the savage action of the u.s. president is considered a military of terrorism. the only thing you want to know the disadvantage will have painful consequences for

revolution in confronting iran's enemies today but he also had some very lengthy praise for qassam silliman he killed in that u.s. drone strike. yes that's right carson for the money was a friend of the supreme leader ayatollah khamenei and what's also important is it's not usual for the supreme leader's speeches to be carried live and this one was he also said he also said that yesterday's myside attack against u.s. forces was a slap in the face and it was time for them to leave the region but also. backing up everything that he's saying he he's giving a theological reassurance of ruth the theological foundation to it he said that having military equipment isn't enough but he did say that iran did possess military equipment that would help them stand up to the bullies and focusing specifically on the united states he spoke about how outside forces are trying to influence people he spoke about the protests that took place here in november and have outside of the tried to infiltrate. those protests referring to some of the mass rioters and some of the damage that was done to buildings here b

iraqis iraqis dancing in the street for freedom thanks to the general silliman is no more the only care we had on american. iran should solve their problems outside iraq we do not want them to solve it here we do not celebrate the killing or so the money or anyone else because this will not serve us at the end of the day. over in iran were so the money was widely repeated the assassinations triggered an outpouring of grief and anger $3.00 days of mourning have been announced and photos of iranians of turned out in cities across the country to all of the general was paula slayer reports next the u.s. assault has polarized opinion around the world to today. we've witnessed reaction from the international community and particularly here in the region the concern is that the american actions will destabilize the situation there is a lot of criticism being leveled at the united states 2 key has accused the american president of destabilizing the middle east a view that is being echoed by syria that also says that this will only fuel the conflict and the leader of the iran backed his group th

it was indeed the case as the prime minister of iraq has said that gen silliman he had a message in his pocket now exactly what the message was hasn't been declared and that must be right and proper because it will have been extremely sensitive it could have been about avoiding unnecessary competition between them in iraq it could have been about a framework for settling the wide range of issues on which iran and iraq disagree or it could have been about the immediate problem in yemen which saudi arabia had. which is that it is no nearer achieving stability after this appalling bombing campaign that it has conducted well who knows boeing it's a reset in the world was humanitarian crisis when the british actually just finally and briefly given that you were also of course palestine's ambassador kind of pompei was in town surely he might be telling the british government the kind of criticisms you're making of the trump administration unfounded this is a deal of the century being worked out in washington i know the palestinians have threatened to withdraw from the oslo accords that they a

khamenei and president hassan rouhani held prayers at the funeral proceedings in the iranian capital silliman his body will move to go in just outside of tehran and then on to carmen his home time where he will be buried finally tomorrow does the job ari has more. the body is currently on route from the capital to the holy city of qom we can see the images that people have come out to say their goodbyes to the general and as it makes it the coffin makes its way to the holy city of rome where their people will also have a chance to pay their respects after that the coffin will make its way from home to his hometown of care mon city in central iran where he will be laid to rest later on tuesday rocky politicians a voted to remove all foreign forces in response to the assassination or there were any commando solo bonnie the bill is non-binding and still needs government approval though the us president is threatening sanctions against iraq if it goes ahead with moves to expel foreign troops donald trump says american forces will not leave unless iran pays for the u.s. base that's there. in other

everybody seems to be on board on expelling foreign troops and iraq is still divided isn't it over silliman his legacy what he does about the clashes that have been taking place. what we saw from the very beginning as soon as the money was killed you saw the celebrations here in tahrir square from protesters who have been camping out for months now who are behind this ignition of the iraqi prime minister who's only leading a temporary government for now and this was also manifested itself in buzzer where multiple groups came out on the same day some were chanting slogans against iran some wanted to carry out a symbolic funeral in the main square and that's why the groups clashed amongst each other there were a number of injuries there as well but it goes to sure how deeply divided this country is based on its sectarian is well religious and ethnic lines so you saw the kurds boycotting the session there has been called in social media from various employees and punishing kurds and sunnis and that is something that the kurds and the sunnis fear as well that in the absence of foreign troops in

influence and military presence in their country the targeted killing of general qassam silliman has not changed the dynamic in the region and u.s. influence in iraq could become collateral damage. when a u.s. drone strike killed tehran's top military mastermind it didn't happen on iranian soil but in iraq the country was a target for general casey i'm still a money and iran in their master plan for the region but to extend shiite power using proxies. like the shiite militia that attacked the u.s. embassy many of these militant groups came to prominence during the fight against so-called islamic state shiite iraqis trained in iran who were central to defeating i-s. and many of them took their orders from sort of money. iraqi lawmakers call out no to america iran's influence pervades iraq's political class too in the 2018 elections 45 form a shiite militia men won seats in parliament that election also made a deal of the prime minister he was long a member of a shiite party based in iran abdul mahdi resigned after mass anti government protests at the end of 2019 he remains acting prim

meanwhile in lebanon hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah has warned the us military will pay the price for silliman his death saying it marks a new phase in the history of the middle east so a binge of aid has more from baghdad where the security situation is tense. we've heard at least 3 explosions here close to the outskirts of the fortified green zone iraqi security forces saying there were 6 in number and landed in around the green zone in baghdad central area where the u.s. embassy and other important buildings are located we were there throughout the day with the iraqi parliament when the proceedings were happening now this attack comes . second night in a row where these projectiles are being fired so far we haven't heard about any casualties although there are reports unconfirmed reports at the moment that some of these rockets landed in a residential area and some civilians might have been injured but this is significant because this is the 1st incident after the warning has been lied to his beloved brigades a group which said to iraqi forces and warned them to distance themselves for a 10

silliman he was a murderer but this reckless move escalates the situation with iran and increases the likelihood of more deaths and new middle east conflict our priority must be to avoid another costly war. u.s. secretary of state mike pump aoe tweeted a video showing iraqis celebrating the attack while still a money enjoyed widespread support for leading the charge to displace eisel from iraqi strongholds some iraqis blame iran for instability and interference in their country and solute money directly for the deaths of more than 500 iraqis in violent antigovernment protests which began in october feared by his enemies inside iran has for years been one of the most popular national figures in the country the international face of iranian resistance to american pressure he remained largely untouched by the waning popularity in recent years of the country's elected government over economic issues oh you. haven't you will stop this war but we will be the ones to impose its and therefore you have to be careful about insulting the iranian people and the president of our republic. many ira

assassination of top iranian commander kassam silliman e that last week the pentagon said 34 people had been injured in that some are still receiving treatment all right up to date those are the latest headlines from us here at al-jazeera coming up next is the bottom line. the prime minister's. mission is to defeat the critics and make this country the greatest place. follow the final run into the u.k.'s departure from the e.u. on al-jazeera. hi i'm steve clements and i have a question will trump's deal of the century actually bring peace to the middle east where will it bring the exact opposite let's get to the bottom line. so what do we know about the so-called ultimate deal between palestinians and israelis for starters palestinians weren't part of it the leaders who made it u.s. president donald trump and israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu are both facing legal troubles and they're both in the middle of election campaigns instead of trying to find common ground between the 2 parties it sounds more like a series of take it or leave it suggestions so is the deal of the century

it was a rather sobering speech from the supreme leader had some brainy lengthy praise for custom silliman he didn't. yes he did got some for the money was a friend of his but also you have to address this because this myside attack is the retaliation that he the i.d.c. commanders and the people have been talking about is that what the people in the streets have been demanding now gotten so the money was the 2nd most popular figure in this country he was seen as a patriot he was seen as someone that fought isis and prevented them from reaching the borders of iran and now the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini's speeches are not usually carried live but this one was he had a theological message for the followers and many of them were holding pictures up of course and so the money he had these words to say today. i will let you down today we are armed the nation of iran is equipped today against the bullies of the world madam will last night we slap the us on the face when it comes to confrontation military actions of this kind are not enough what is important is the corrupt presence of the u

gallagher with the latest there from a scandal in florida and they think you are well under the same silliman his leadership iran's could force has been instrumental in building a network of proxy armed groups across the middle east this string of non-state alliances began with hezbollah in lebanon after the overthrow saddam hussein iran was able to become a dominant force in iraq where it all and then trained the paramilitary groups who made up the popular mobilization units who helped in the feisal now iran has provided significant support for syria during its civil war and that includes training and intelligence services iran's influence extends to the southern tip of the arabian peninsula where it's been backing the who these in the war in yemen well for in their. so doing by holy the middle east analyst and nonresident fellow at the atlantic council thank you so much for being with us again i'd like to ask you about the domestic u.s. policy afterwards but 1st of all it means is that what you think is the u.s. is primarily a mean this is us nation but generally its policy towards iran to

welcome to the program the assassinated a rainy and military commander kasim silliman he has been buried but later than planned after a stampede broke out as the ceremony began at least $56.00 people were killed and nearly 200 injured in the crush as the funeral procession started in this whole pound of caroline meanwhile iran has continued to talk of revenge with the head of the revolutionary guard to telling the crowds of the funeral that u.s. allies would be set ablaze iran's foreign minister divides the reef says retaliation of a silver mine is death will bring an end to the american presence in the middle east u.s. president donald trump's assume the money had been planning a big attack on americans and more details will 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 stuff 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 f

reporting that the pentagon officials were stunned when trump chose the most extreme option of killing silliman when other choices were given to the president. yeah that's right the new york times article late on saturday where they were speaking to some anonymous administration officials lays out a picture and paints a picture of how the pentagon allegedly gave a menu of options as they call it to president trump military options to strike back against iran after the u.s. embassy in baghdad was attacked by those protesters make it very clear the administration and trump pointed their ire towards iran for sparking that and on the list a menu of options they gave one of the options was to take out solo money according to administration officials that are speaking to the new york times. this was an option that they that military planners did not expect trump to take but that exactly what he did and demanded that that be what the military did and it was thursday evening local time here that trump ultimately made that decision and then it was friday when the military carried it out it's being descr

also said president committed a crime by assassinating silliman. and over in iran hundreds of thousands of mourners have gathered to welcome home the body of qassam ceremony these pictures right now from a vase from his body is in the city of mashad after an earlier procession in l.a. to be flown to tehran and then he'll be buried in his hometown on tuesday. all right let's turn our attention to other world news now and in venezuela opposition leader one guy doe is due to be reelected to his position as national assembly speaker on sunday but a cordon of police officers outside the building has prevented him from entering has vowed to resume his push against the government of president nicolas maduro this year in 21000 he declared himself acting president but his battle floundered as the military failed to heed his calls to defect. not to india way to say south point job which has a majority sikh community has seen some of the most vocal objections to the new citizenship law with many saying it discriminates against muslims so i have raman reports

east is now a fair target for retaliation following the assassination of the iranian general custom silliman. and. many are debating how the just punishment should be how can we avenged for the death of sulaimani and one is should we talk a big figure as important a silly money like the us shiva staff the secretary of defense there's nobody as important as solo money and i'm 100 his shoe alone is worth from any tire cabinet. if i feel i'll be clear their response is to target their merican military presence in the region their american military bases their vessels every american officer and soldier in our region and our countries on our soul their american army is the one who killed these people and they are the ones who will be paying the price. and in iran massive crowds have gathered in the cities of avaaz and mashad to welcome home the body of qassam some a money loser assassination by u.s. forces 3 days ago set in motion the current train of events his body will next be taken to tehran before being sent to his hometown of care mon for burial on tuesday now all those developments came ho

decisively just as israel has the right of self-defense united states has exactly the same right cousin silliman is responsible for the deaths of american citizens and many other innocent people he was planning more such attacks president wrote deserves all the credit for acting swiftly forcefully decisively israel stands with the united states in its just goggle for peace security and self defense. and the oil prices jumped nearly $3.00 a barrel following the killing of soleimani with the international benchmark for crude jumping more than 3 percent in early trading markets fear that tehran may retaliate by disrupting global energy supplies from the middle east if prices continue to rise and fuel electricity and heating could become more expensive stifling the global economy. well and the custom so the money's leadership iran's quds force has been instrumental in building a network of proxy on the groups across the middle east this string of non-state alliances began with hezbollah in lebanon and after the overthrow of saddam hussein iran was able to become a dominant force in iraq were it arme

allies would be quote set ablaze iran's foreign minister jevons $85.00 says retaliation over silliman his death will bring an end to the american presence in the middle east meanwhile in washington secretary of state might pump ale said the u.s. would respond decisively to any bad choices by iran and maintains the country would never have nuclear weapons. i think the presence of an unambiguous is about the remarks he made on the floor as well as the tweets that he's put out but the seriousness with which we take this the risk attendant that we are deeply aware of and the preparations we've made to prevent those risks as well as our determination that in the event you're in to make another bad choice that president respond in a way that if he did last week which was decisive serious and message to iran about the constraints that we're going to place on that regime so that it doesn't continue to put american lives at risk or we have correspondents covering developments in iran iraq and the u.s. let's start with door such a bari in tehran so door so dreadful news of course about this emp

blame on to the united states for this because they launched the don't strike which killed general silliman me and therefore the really interests pointed that put them in a higher it seems to be a long string to follow but he says look before we start making those sort of allegations we need to have a full inquiry is the thing we kept coming back to we need to be able to look at the evidence get it together speak to the experts and then draw our final conclusions but from his initial conclusions with the intelligence he has he says this aircraft was short don't buy the iranians and one other thing he mentioned was that he said that iran had indicated that it will keep the black boxes in iran but have told ukraine's president that the ukrainian investigators would be granted access. well let's just be clear what those black boxes are there are 2 recorders on the plane one is a cockpit voice recorder one is a flight data recorder the flight data recorder is probably the most important one in this situation because that would give an idea if there was any problem if there was a fire on board i

and, douglas silliman was the u.s. ambassador to iraq until early last year.is now the president of the arab gulf states institute, a washington think tank. the siege is over, but do you right now have criticism of both the iraqi forces that allowed some of these protesters, these demonstrators, these members of the militia to get so close to the embassy, and you have criticism of what started this, the u.s. airstrikes in iraq over the weekend. >> right, both countries to blame, both parties to blame for the starting of this crisis. first, the u.s. unit lateral action against the shiite militias of the west, some of them, and it was a mistake, it was a mistake by iraqi forces protecting the green zone, the international zone where the u.s. and many other embassies and the iraqi institutions like parliament are located there. >> schifrin: you were in the embassy until recently last year. sarkawt shams says did the iraqi forces do enough to keep the people away from the embassy, but also that the u.s. did not do enough to actually tell the iraqi government befor

sustentation of cousin silliman the of course that top iranian commander last week though the pentagon said 34 people have been injured and that some will still receiving treatment right we can speak to richard what's now his a security and defense analysts said with his strut a global risk consultancy joining us from washington d.c. richard thanks for talking to us traumatic brain injuries it sounds really serious . yes and this is something that we've become aware of in both civilian and military life over the past years it's become much clearer how even small concussion can over time really miss her and seriously impact a person's head oath and so i think it's you know i think this is something that the military is going to respond pretty extensively for items that really say do you take do you think it's not do you think that these injuries then would not a pirate at the time when donald trump tweeted that everything was well it was good and said that nobody had been hurt in the iranian missile strikes sure at that i mean at the time we parsed feared that their. missiles would kill

government if there was one person who they could attribute that to be on the ground would be caught in silliman who was designing many operations of brigades on the ground and exactly is the case in iraq because i think you go towards the border towards the kurdish regions and the outskirts of go on to the curb a lot of the outskirts of baghdad at the height of the violence is in the area. forces the. net and in some places handpicked by us and for the money to fight. and again. you need to be and 101 of your schools confidant of insulin money who. they've been under his wing and was very close. to him and work with him to carry out all of these operations committee and wonder was somebody who you heard just a few more less than 48 hours ago saying that they would take the fight to the united states he was visible in many many of these tests so it is if these 2 leaders were very very instrumental. figures in the hierarchy of. in fact forces of the ideological fight in iraq and the wider region and it is going to blow back. in across the region if we can see that because of the kind of threats t

[applause] >>all right, ladies and silliman. you should know the drill. please raise your hands and connie and myself will bring the microphones to you. left instart to your the front row, gentlemen. >>thank you for the discussion of the postwar issues. i would like to ask you a prewar question at the intersection of the washington war and economics. i believe it was 1937. the war department led a series of conferences that included the navy department, the treasury department. they started off calling this the allocation conferences after several of these -- allocation conferences. the army made the 90 division gamble. the basic economic decision was we would fight the next war with capital equipment like ships and tanks and airplanes, and less so than with labor. division alternative to the division gamble. can you comment on how that process played out? >> i can't. -- i can. the first book, the unreadable one, was all most all about this topic. none of those military conferences before the war had any impact on economic planning whatsoever. the agencie

of these rockets actually did hit the dining area so in the wake of the assassination of possum silliman you and generally the 3rd we've seen multiple volleys being fired at the green zone the last time rockets hit close to the u.s. embassy compound they were fired from a nearby area of that frontier nobody has claimed responsibility so far and many of the major groups as there was a tweet last night by iraq's former foreign minister saying that rogue elements within the popular mobilization forces might be behind this but we've heard from. saying they have nothing to do with the attack and militias in iraq are saying they're going to abide by the government's decision to force u.s. and other foreign troops out diplomatically and the backdrop to all of this of course is continuation of those protests that started months ago now i think it was in october they're just continuing their sustaining their protests the people of iraq. absolutely. in about 2 weeks time we've seen an escalation which kind of died down when the tensions were at their highest between the united states and iran but

and iran hundreds of thousands of mourners gathered in the city of mashad to welcome home custom silliman his body will be taken to the capital tehran before the final burial in cameron on tuesday it comes as iran announced its further rowing back on its commitments to the 2050 nuclear deal saying there will be no limits on its uranium enrichment capacity. meanwhile in lebanon hezbollah leader hassan nasrallah has warned the u.s. military will pay the price for silly money's death saying it marks a new phase in the history of the middle east have the latest from tehran with asad back shortly as well as reaction from washington with john hendren but 1st to some a binge of aid in baghdad so the summer that tell us more about those rocket attacks lauren in the last hour or so we've heard at least 3 explosions here close to the outskirts of the fortified green zone iraqi security forces saying there were 6 in number and landed in around the green zone in baghdad central area where the u.s. embassy and other important buildings are located we were there throughout the day with the iraqi parlia

political elite but it is the goal it goes beyond the region beyond iraq as well into the wider region silliman he was somebody who divided not just opinions in iraq but also in neighboring syria as well. he was instrumental in putting together the grass roots roots movement off various militia fighters turning them into a potent force which did or not only defeated eisel but what also stood against the the sunni villages the sunni fighting factions as well and has been credited for resurrecting the government of president bashar al assad so yes a divisive figure but certainly if death has united iraqis in saying that this is an act which is against iraqi sovereignty in the united states does not have the right to do so in their country ok a summer binge of aids thank you very much indeed some of the brain has the update from iraq let's head to iran and speak with al-jazeera as dorsett jabari also give us a sense of the reaction in iran right now just a popular walsall the money. well he was one of the most popular among figures in the islamic republic despite people's backgrounds or political

to those renewed criticisms now from members of both parties at trump's decision to kill general silliman me i'd even he thinks let's bring you want to go to white house correspondent kelly hell cooch is live outside the white house what's the president making of all of this kimberly. well the u.s. president continues to defend his unilateral decision to assassinate general sola monny and not seek congressional approval for that military action he's also defending his right of the administration he says to keep secret from congress and remember this is a co-equal branch of government he's defending his right he says to keep the intelligence that he says prove there was an imminent threat to americans and that's why this killing was necessary here's what the u.s. president had to say we caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. we did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy we also did it for other reasons and were very obvious somebody died one of our military people died people were badly wounded just a week before and we did it

radar dot com or flight flight tracker 24 what you're looking at right now is the burial of kassam silliman e he was killed last friday in that targeted drone strike carried out by the united states he was killed at the same time as an iraqi militia leader there was a natural overlap between those 2 men and what they were trying to achieve of course the news agenda for the past 4 or 5 days has been dominated by the international reaction to that and the incredibly powerful pictures coming out of iran tens of thousands of people on the streets of iranian cities during the 3 days of mourning for qassam so the money somebody was saying when he was killed he wasn't on a mission he was the mission and he was directly responsible for maintaining and pushing the arc of iranian influence across the middle east from iran itself all the. down to the arabian peninsula down through and as far south as yemen there were reports that came out very very quickly and it's an established part of the journal of record of this region that there was an overlap between him his militia influences and some of the f