solomin he was plotting. eminent and serious terror attacks on american diplomats and military personnel we took action last like just stop a war. we did not take action to start a war. to iran has appointed general esmail ghani to replace alemany kill now be responsible for iran's foreign military operations the joining me from tehran is vasu your journalist with the a.f.p. news agency a mere president trump has warned iran the us has already chosen 52 iranian targets what do you make of this is certain any of this very specific number. well 1st of all i don't exactly realize where that number is coming is pointing out to a number of cultural sites and important places in iran that could be anything that could be cultural sense and spawn or she was not exactly sure that was based on reliable in some way in a sense and it's supposed to be mostly symbolic and the interesting point is that already some. decision makers inside iran are saying that if that's supposed to be $52.00 for that not the symbolic number

solomin he was plotting. eminent and serious or attacks on american diplomats and military personnel we took action last like just stop a war. we did not. take action to start a war. to iran has appointed general esmail ghani to replace alemany kill now be responsible for iran's foreign military operations the. for more on this story let's bring indeed to abuse very own for iraq from our arabic desk farid nice to see you with us the u.s. president donald trump has warned iran that they have already chosen 52 targets if iran has any thoughts about striking back to the u.s. would you make of that claim and would you make of that number that claim just give me how frightened the u.s. feel appalled that the u.s. embassy in iraq because the 52 number is that exact number of diplomats who were in the you us embassy in iran 1979 taken captive by the right one students you had and these were and danger for 444 days so then from saying in every meaning that you us felt so they injure when the attack of the u.s. embass

solomin he was responsible for murdering and wounded thousands of americans it was actively planning new attacks but we stopped them cold was. and frankly they already started the attack as you saw in baghdad on our very large embassy in baghdad that was already started you know a moment to remember was a standoff between bernie sanders and elizabeth warren warren accused sanders to have said a woman could not be elected president of the united states look at the man on this stage collectively they have lost 10 elections the only people on this stage who have won every single election that they've been in are the women but bernie sanders rejected the allegation the real winner did not emerge good news for joe biden who avoided a blunder this time and that could consolidate his position as the front runner of the democratic party. after 18 months of damaging economic a conflict the united states and china due to sign what they're calling phase one of a trade agreement that would see the u.s. ease some sanctions against china the u.s. has agreed to stop labeling beijing as a currency m

manner and whenever we deem appropriate we will give the proper response the killing of iran's general solomin the smart protests among his supporters in the middle east as mentioned than him further afield members of india's kashmiri shia community marched with images of him shouting anti american slogans while in pakistan protesters wrapped coffins with the u.s. flag and set them alight in iran itself 3 days of mourning are underway and thousands have turned out in cities nationwide to one of the general. u.s. leadership has been saying on almost every platform they can find that they are working to deescalate tensions with the islamic republic of iran that was the time to take this action so that we could disrupt this plot deter further aggression from qassam solo bombing in the iranian regime as well as to attempt to deescalate the situation it's not an easy case to make killing the country's 2nd most powerful person most well known military leader and commander of the elite could force of the revolutionary guards doesn't look like deescalation however washington insists its actions were a

their heads and they're sick and tired of this whole thing these are pictures from iran where custom solomin is a body has now arrived to crowds of people were there to receive the general who will be buried on tuesday there has been an outpouring of support and grief in a country with hundreds of thousands of mourners paying tribute to the slain commander iran has responded with fury to friday's deadly u.s. air raid vowing to avenge the money's down which is what i've got their comments now on the killings and the consequences. you can imagine how trumpet. read to it then he was playing golf and up comes an agent smith holding a folder he says mr president you remember when we killed baghdad yes the eyes the sky yes the media did love it so how how would you like to do it again oh yeah. rocky television has just confirmed that cosine sula mani former general in iran's revolutionary guard commander of the could force has been killed in a rocket attack apparently initiated by the united states. this is the us at our allies on alert at the veteran matic attack iran's top military commander and

solomin has been perpetrating acts of terror to destabilize the middle east for the last 20 years what the united states did yesterday should have been done long ago we took action last like just stop a war. we did not take action just start a war the world is a safer place without these monsters that. this was an obvious terrorist move a move that entirely shouted cowardice in every respect we will not fall for the propaganda and blackmailed by the americans in whatever manner and when ever we deem appropriate we will give the proper response. the money has led the powerful quds force an elite branch of the iranian revolutionary guard corps charged with spearheading foreign operations the unit has been heavily involved in the conflicts in iraq and syria and was instrumental in the territorial defeat of eisel artie's killam up and has more on the drone strike and the kind of reaction it has triggered. we've got the u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o making his rounds on american media and trying to make the case that somehow this effort by the united states in this recent killing is

states military eliminated the world's top terrorist to sam solar many as the head of the cuts force solomin he was personally responsible for some of the absolutely worst.

the time comes to face the cameras and deliver a message people like the supreme leader or hossein solomin the head of the revolutionary guards are very good at. do stuff. i mean i walk emotion. i know so. but. there is no culture of accountability this is the head of one of the most powerful institutions in iran how many interviews has he given before the guards run about 3040 percent of the iranian economy they run massive media and yet they have never been responsible to the people or to the constitution by the way or to anything in the cover up was probably more an acceptable to the iranian people than the unintentional down of the plane and i think the media also struggled very hard how to frame this we were between a rock and a hard place if they wanted to really investigate the issue they were worried that they might endanger national security and if they were just parroting what the government was saying they risk losing credibility in the wrong hands are well versed at scouring the web and social media for independent journalists the kind that can land reporters in prison 12 have

solomon any solomin he was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on american diplomats and military personnel but we caught him in the act and terminated him. under my leadership america's policy is unambiguous to terrorists who harbor intent to harm any american. we will find you we will eliminate you we will always protect our diplomats service members all americans and our allies. for years the islamic revolutionary guard corps and its ruthless could force under solmonese leadership has targeted injured and murdered hundreds of american civilians and service me the recent attacks on u.s. targets in iraq including rocket strikes that killed an american and injured 4 american servicemen very badly as well as a violent assault on our embassy in baghdad were carried out at the direction of selling maney cell in maine he made the death of innocent people his sick passion contributing to terrorist plots as far away as new delhi and london today we remember and honor the victims of solemn a nice many atrocities and we take comfort in knowing that his reign of terror is over solemn a he