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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 ...
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 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 ...
The attack lasted roughly three hours and was over by 4:00 a.m. [34] The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) took responsibility for the attack against the al-Asad Airbase [35] about half an hour after the attack began and announced that it was carried out in response to the killing of Soleimani. The IRGC added that if the U.S. retaliated ...
"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.
For Iranians backing the country's theocracy, whose icons since the Islamic Revolution have been stern-faced clergymen, Gen. Qassem Soleimani represented a popular figure of national resilience in ...
On January 4, 2020, U.S. president Donald Trump made several tweets stating that if Iran retaliated against the assassination of Qasem Soleimani, "the United States will hit 52 Iranian sites, some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture, very fast and very hard."
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