After claiming on Monday that the U.S. turned Qasem Soleimani “into a martyr, if not a saint,” on Tuesday’s Today show, NBC’s chief foreign correspondent Richard Engel touted a “large mural” of the Iranian terrorist being put up across from the U.S. embassy in Baghdad as a way of taunting American officials in the Iraqi capital.

Introducing the report from Engel, co-host Hoda Kotb proclaimed: “Take a look at this scene in Iran. Right now, Iranians coming together en masse to mourn the country’s most powerful general.” She then warned: “This morning, there’s new tension and new threats over the American air strike that took his life.”

Noting that “the formal period of mourning is coming to an end” in Iran, Engel highlighted: “Amid the crushing sea of mourners, the head of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard making explicit threats, saying, ‘We tell our enemies that we will retaliate, but if they take another action we will set ablaze the places that they like and are passionate about.’”

Wrapping up his report, Engel touted: “And this morning in Baghdad, a large mural of Qasem Soleimani is now hanging from an apartment building facing the U.S. embassy, so U.S. officials literally coming face to face with the man they ordered to be killed.” As if American diplomats should feel any guilt or remorse for the killing of a brutal terrorist.

Co-host Savannah Guthrie then seized on “perhaps surprising news out of Israel and Prime Minister Netanyahu, a close ally of the President, and his reaction to the killing of general Soleimani.” Engel suggested that the Israeli leader objected to the strike against the ruthless Iranian commander:

So Netanyahu has long called for action to be taken against Iran, but so far Israel has been very quiet and there are numerous reports coming out of Israel this morning that Netanyahu told his security cabinet that Israel had nothing to do with this action, that it was an American action taken alone, and that Israel does not want to get dragged into it.

Since Soleimani’s death, the liberal media have been desperate to paint the action as a foreign policy failure for the Trump administration, even to the point of adopting Iranian propaganda.

Here is a full transcript of Engel’s January 7 report: