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>> the battle in iraq is very important to iran. the iranians believe that the americans if serious could do a lot more to put pressure on their allies and serious about air strikes they would be carrying out a lot more than what they are currently doing. >> the u.s., of course, sees things differently though iran and america have a common enemy in isis the lack of trust at least so far means no common strategy. >> and fred pleitgen joining us live from tehran. so what i hear you saying their military spokesman downplaying the effectiveness of air strikes saying they're the ones making a diffe...

Itself which, the fact of the matter is it's been part of the political scenery here in baghdad increasingly since the u.s. overthrew saddam hussein in 2003. >> colonel reese, is that your sense right now, hearing a lot more farsi, the language of iran in baghdad, elsewhere in iraq? that their influence has dramatically grown over the past few years? >> no wolf i wouldn't say it was dramatically. even yesterday when we were out just outside of tikrit we saw the kudz special forces they were there and they speak a little broken arabic and they smile. but they're there. but again, i think we've ...