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Trump asserted that Soleimani had been planning further attacks on American diplomats and military personnel and had approved the attack on the American embassy in Baghdad. [ 84 ] [ 135 ] [ 136 ] According to Saudi-based Arab News , the drone that struck Soleimani's convoy had been launched from Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar , and was controlled ...
In autumn 2020, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo repeatedly threatened to close the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad if Iraqi leaders did not prevent further attacks on the embassy. [47] According to some media sources, Pompeo informed Baghdad that it would target 120 sites in Iraq linked to Iran-backed militias if rocket attacks cost American lives.
The president on Thursday continued to defend his decision to order the drone strike that killed Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani ... claiming that Tehran was planning an attack on the U.S. embassy ...
For attacks orchestrated or attempted against American and other targets abroad, Soleimani was personally sanctioned by the United Nations and the European Union, [20] [21] [22] and was designated as a terrorist by the United States in 2005. [23] [24] [25] Soleimani was assassinated by a targeted drone strike on 3 January 2020 in Baghdad, Iraq.
"I will say this, we caught a total monster," Trump said of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a U.S. drone attack in Baghdad on Jan. 3. "That should have happened a long time ago.
A rocket attack on the sprawling U.S. Embassy in Baghdad caused minor damage but no casualties on Friday morning, U.S. and Iraqi officials said. The attack was the first on the embassy located in ...
The People's Mojahedin of Iran, an exiled Iranian militant group, welcomed the killing of Soleimani.Its leader Maryam Rajavi, the wife of the disappeared Massoud Rajavi, stated that the killing is an "irreparable blow for the regime of the mullahs" while she accused Soleimani of being "one of the biggest criminals in Iran's history" and "personally implicated in the massacre of thousands of ...
The Revolutionary Guards commander instructed his top ally in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, and other powerful militia leaders to step up attacks on U.S. targets in the country using sophisticated ...