'I am totally unconvinced that there was any imminence that required an immediate attack,' Sen. Chuck Schumer tells TheView on strike that killed top Iranian general. 'This president plays so fast and loose with the truth—not only on that issue.'
ian general including “four embassies,” including the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad, again adding new details to his account without offering more specifics and raising new questions about the immediacy of the threat.told reporters earlier Friday that the attacks were"against American facilities, including American embassies, military bases, American facilities throughout the region."
Hours after striking Soleimani, a senior Iranian official, Trump said in a speech that he ordered the general killed to prevent future attacks. But over the coming days, the president primarily centered on the past, citing Soleimani's role in the proliferation of roadside bombs in Iraq over the years. He has also cited what he said was the general's central role in ordering a militia to attack a base in Iraq housing U.S.
Members the Hashed al-Shaabi, a mostly Shiite network of local armed groups trained and armed by powerful neighbour Iran, smash the bullet-proof glass of the U.S. embassy's windows in Baghdad after breaching the outer wall, Dec. 31, 2019 to vent their anger over weekend air strikes that killed pro-Iran fighters in western Iraq.
Later that night, the president at a campaign rally again said that Soleimani was looking to attack U.S. embassies, although he refrained from using the phrase"blow up."
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