Welcome to pushback. I'm Erin Mate. The Trump administration is facing pushback from Iran and Iraq

following its assassination of top leaders from both countries in Baghdad. Washington's response

so far is more coercion and aggression. On Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo rejected Iraq's call for

the departure of U.S. troops despite a recent vote in the Iraqi parliament.

We are happy to continue the conversation with the Iraqis about what the right structure

is. Our mission said there is very clear. We've been there to perform a training mission

to help the Iraqi security forces be successful

and to continue the campaign against ISIS, to continue the counter-dash campaign.

We're going to continue that mission.

Meanwhile, the White House announced new sanctions on Iran.

Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin said the new sanctions would target those involved in major

sectors of Iran's economy.

I think we have 100% confidence and we are consistent in our view that the economic

sanctions are working. That if we didn't have these sanctions in place, literally Iran

would have tens of billions of dollars. They would be using that for terrorist activities

throughout the region and to enable them to do more bad things. And there's no question. By cutting

off the economics to the regime, we are having an impact.

These new sanctions come on top of existing sanctions

that have already seriously harmed Iran's economy and people.

And all of this comes as the Trump administration's stated reasons

for starting this current crisis continue to unravel.

The Washington Post reports that on the same day that the U.S. killed Qasem Soleimani

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