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Kerry is confident it can be retaken in the coming days. the question is, how? today around 3,000 militia american are assembling at bases close to ramadi to try to recapture the city. they remember where the troops that helped retake tikrit from isis six weeks ago, they are effective, mostly armed and banked by iran. the question now is, what role does the u.s. take in this? u.s. warplanes bombed isis dozens times in recent weeks indeed, 19 strikes in 3 days just as the city was taken. but it didn't work. so the u.s. is going to be weary, it's unlikely to want to form the air wing of iranian-...

Power in the middle east or are these sanctions crippling iran? it's a good question as we see iran involved in syria supporting the assad regime, militias fighting in iraq trying to help retake tikrit. now a coalition led by saudi arabia launching air strikes against the houthi rebels in yemen. the red is iran and rebels the yellow is coalition members. they are working to rescue the deposed government. u.s. trying to hammer out an agreement by the deadline of march 30th. bob baer where do you think we end up when all is said and done here in terms of these

Largely because of the nuclear portfolio. if we cut this deal i fear the rest of the world and maybe ourselves included begin to treat iran as a normal state even though all of these other things are going on. so there are a lot of first and second order effects here that trouble me. but again, tough to figure out a plan "b" or "c." >> general, let me follow up on that with you and ia in nn. it would be iran's absolute dominance within iraq that they're attempting to help retake tikrit retake mosul, working with the iraqi army. and i hear from some of your former colleagues there's an increasi...

From the pentagon. martin dempsey told the senate foreign relations committee wednesday that the u.s. is concerned about what iran will do down the road in exchange for its help against isis now. >> iran is going to be influence in iraq. has been influential in iraq. i am concerned about the way they wield that influence. they can wield it to promote a better iraq economically for example. there are ways they can wield that to create a state where the sunni and kurds are no longer welcome. >> let's bring in cnn's ian lee. iran has a great interest in iraq and the help in the shi'ite militias a...

Doing it with american assistance. the iran revolutionary guard is fighting to take back that city from the forces. john? >> yeah and jenna iran is involved onap operational and a combat level. you mentioned iran's revolutionary guard, it is involved. and iranian backed shiite militia and special forces. they are fighting alongside iraqi forces in the offensive to retake tikrit. 20000 iraqi troops are involved and isis is trying to stop them using road side bombs and suicide attacks and this is an important fight because of tikrit's location. we have talked about this. 140 mimes south of mossi...