because of the pressure and the air strikes, the group still exist, but the threat is less immediate than a year ago. just to change subjects briefly for one second there are these reports that the head of iran s elite qods force, qassen soleimani traveled to russia. i am told it is truffle he did travel to russia it is in violation. he s still under u.n. sanctions, add ambassador powers said today if he were to travel there would have to be some sort of exemption given, but that exemption was not given. administration officials will say, well, that shows you, had we not done a deal with iran how close iran is with countries like like to russia. to russia rather and how