This is popular front a podcast focus on the very niche and kind of geeky

details of Modern Warfare with me Jake Hanrahan. Today we're talking to Seamus Malik Efzali.

He's a writer and researcher, mostly covering Iran.

And unlike a lot of people that cover Iran,

Seamus is fluent in Fazi., definitely knows what's going on.

He's going to be speaking about Kasam Sulamani, the commander of the Kud's force and the

major general of the IAGC in Iran. Of course he's been assassinated and there's

been clashes between America and Iran taking place inside Iraq.

Shomis is going to explain to us who was Kasam Salamani

and what's going on with the, you know, is it a war,

is it not a war situation with America and Iran?

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So there's a lot to go through the hell of a lot has happened in the last like

week ten days but let's start with the assassination of Suleimani what happened there maybe start right at that point.

All right on the night of January 3rd after there were airstrikes on kazbala and there was a seaging of the U.S.

embassy by the supporters of Kataa, Hezbollah, there was a convoy of I believe about

two cars, maybe three cars, who were leaving Baghdad International Airport, and then suddenly there was, I believe, a drone strike that impacted those two cars, utterly destroyed them, bodies

scattered on the road, and at first the reports were that these were civilians who were in these cars who had been killed

There was also reports of a rocket attack

Someone near the area as well, so they were soon to be related. But then there were

scatter reports that Abu Mahdi al-Mohandis, who is the deputy leader of the popular

mobilization units, the Iraqi government's organized

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