No intelligence details provided on claim
This translation has been automatically generated and has not been verified for accuracy.The coffins of Gen. Qassem Soleimani and others are carried on a truck through Tehran, Iran, during a funeral procession, Jan. 6, 2019. U.S. President Donald Trump claims the U.S. killed Soleimani in part because of a plot to 'blow up' the U.S. embassy.U.S.
The U.S. saw some of the repercussions from its strike on Wednesday, when Iran fired 16 missiles at bases in Iraq that host U.S. forces – an attack that the Pentagon believes was designed to inflict casualties but that killed and injured no one.“We caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy,” Mr. Trump told reporters at the White House.
That was followed by violent protests by supporters of Iran-backed militia outside of the U.S. embassy in Baghdad. Mr. Trump said Gen. Soleimani had wanted those protests to become more violent. Asked about Mr. Trump’s remarks on the plot to blow up the Baghdad embassy, a senior U.S. defense official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Gen. Soleimani had orchestrated protests at the embassy and acknowledged there had been such plotting to blow up the embassy.Although Iran’s foreign minister has said the missile strikes on Iraqi bases that house U.S. forces had concluded Tehran’s response to the killing of Gen.
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