correspondent carla bleicher standing by there carla we're getting conflicting signals about whether the u.s. military is willing to withdraw from iraq after the country's parliament voted unanimously in favor of that what are you hearing now. well there's a letter that appears to have been send by the u.s. military to the iraqi military saying that u.s. troops would be moved out of fact before moving on and the u.s. respects iraq's sovereign decision to order u.s. troops out but right after that letter was released pretty much secretary of defense mark espers said there have been no plans to pull out of iraq and the joint chiefs of staff chairman said that the letter was only a traffic was a mistake and should never have been since. you know karl as we saw president trump tweeting earlier in all caps the west so that iran will never have a nuclear weapon of course he pulled the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal so how does he plan to achieve that goal well it's hard to see how president trump should still have any control over this after pulling out of the nuclear deal day of the u.

carla bleicher our d.c. correspondent following that story for us thank you very much and as fears of war in the middle east mount global leaders have been scrambling to cool down the tensions there is more. exit size maximum restraint restraint on deescalation exercise maximum restraint. world leaders had one message for the iranian government as the country mourns the death of general sort of mana. nature is especially worried the military alliance fears for the future of the empty terror mission in iraq 2 days ago the government in baghdad put the project on ice nato secretary general is urging tehran not to fan the flames a new conflict would be in no one's interest. so we are all must refrain from further violence and provocations. the european union fees for the future of the run nucular deal. in light of recent events tehran says it no longer feels bound to the agreement. the european union's new chief is asking them to stick to the deal. on with flushed into iran must understand that it is in its own

perspective on the still evolving situation we're joined now by carla bleicher from our washington bureau carla the latest development is that the iran is essentially tearing of the nuclear deal it would seem which trump donald trump himself was keen to scrap as soon as he took office any reaction from the u.s. administration. yes u.s. secretary of state's mike pump ale has said that these this recent steps of action that the u.s. government has taken are more of a course correction against the what he calls peace moment of iran under the obama administration and he is saying that people should remember what happened under this treaty namely what he refers to as the hundreds of thousands of deaths of people across the middle east's and has washington said anything about the significant decision of the iraqi parliament voting for u.s. troops to leave the country. well pump ale pointed out that he believes that the iraqi prime minister who has called the parliament to action and was asked for them to institute a timetable for this pull out it's that he according to pump was pressured by ira