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Tensions between Iran and the United States are escalating. The United States claims to have killed an elite Iranian general in an attack. Iran is determined to take revenge. On the other hand, the Indonesian government has asked that each party exercise restraint. The head of Iran's elite forces, General Qassim Soleimani, was killed in an airstrike carried out by the United States. The attack, which also killed the deputy commander of the Iran-backed Iraqi militia, took place at Baghdad International Airport when an airstrike targeted the general's convoy. The White House and Pentagon have confirmed that the United States military was responsible for Soleimani's death. In a tweet, the official White House account wrote that Soleimani was actively planning attacks on US diplomats in Iraq and the Middle East. The United States Department of Defense, in its statement, accused Soleimani of approving the attack on the US embassy in Baghdad on January 1. Yesterday, a series of rocket attacks began hitting the green zone in the al-Jadiriya district of Baghdad, Iraq, where the US Embassy and the Balad base are located, after Iran declared revenge for the death of General Qassem Soleimani. Following the rocket attacks, the US government again sent troops from the Army Airborne Division to Kuwait. The deployment of the Army, which was flown from Fort Bragg, North Carolina, is part of the deployment of 650 personnel that had been sent previously. The recent exchange of attacks between Iran and the United States was initially triggered by an attack on a US military base in Kirkuk, Iraq, which killed a contractor and injured four US soldiers. The United States accused the attack of being carried out by militias backed by Iran.