where events are underway to mark the anniversary of the assassination of iranian general kasim silliman him he was killed alongside several top iraqi figures in a u.s. drone strike near baghdad airport last year washington and tehran have been accusing each other of escalating military tensions as the anniversary approached well earlier this week the u.s. conducted the b. 52 bomber flyovers and sent a nuclear submarine into the gulf and iranian leaders including the head of the revolutionary guards are vowing to act eve provoked we'll get the latest from baghdad in a 2nd but let's cross to ship returns he joins us live now from washington the season fellas a little bit more about u.s. posturing in the run up to this anniversary she had. we've had mixed signals now because the latest posturing is deescalation the removal of the u.s.s. nimitz aircraft carrier from from the region by the acting defense secretary apparently over the objections of the military commander of the of the region of the middle east but this is specifically according to reports an attempt to deescalate the situatio

years almost 12 months on the commander in chief of iran's armed forces says he's not done avenging silliman his death. you know and built woman as a politician whenever it's possible we will take revenge we will take revenge on those who ordered so him on his assassination and the ones who carried out that assassination just hours after saw him on his body was laid to rest in his hometown of care mon on january 7th the revolutionary guard launched 13 missiles at the u.s. space assad in iraq no americans were killed attentions increased iran was on high alert and accidently shot down the ukrainian airline passenger plane killing all 176 people on board while the united states said they were not seeking regime change in iran trumps the citizen to kill himself mani had far reaching repercussions feared by his enemies inside iran so the money had 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 diminishing popularity of the country's elected government. his death prompted

before his death silliman he had already become a compelling character in a story of the government wants to tell about itself was a movie the music video reproduced about the suffix the general who for the nation's really means approved to have the truth some people say. so lame really. cultivated image who's in for instagram so it's with his network of proxy militia the many. who runs influence in the middle east his strategy on instagram was to selectively put images of himself especially in syria to show that he is at the helm of various militias and divisions that he has been a successful tactician and leader so if you were a syrian looking at those images on instagram in essence those images are highly agitational it's a way of asserting power so once he was killed in the way that he wise his own media team is into high gear producing from neural to us social media campaigns oftentimes it's very difficult actually to tell that it's coming from from regime producers in iran because they know that if their audience is in iran or maybe even in iraq in lebanon know where these are comin

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years almost 12 months on the commander in chief of iran's armed forces says he's not done avenging silliman his death. you know and built woman as a politician whenever it's possible we will take revenge we will take revenge on those who ordered so him on his assassination and the ones who carried out that assassination just hours after saw him on his body was laid to rest in his hometown of care mon on january 7th the revolutionary guard launched 13 missiles at the u.s. space assad in iraq no americans were killed attentions increased iran was on high alert and accidently shut down the ukrainian airline passenger plane killing all 176 people on board while the united states said they were not seeking regime change in iran trump's decision to kill himself in money had far reaching repercussions feared by his enemies inside iran so the money had 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 diminishing popularity of the country's elected government. his death prompt