WASHINGTON – American President Trump makes stunning claims over IranianGeneral Qasem Soleimani assassination case.
In his address to high-profile GOP sponsors, ahead of the formal start ofthe 2020 presidential campaign, POTUS pointed out that the Iraniangeneral’s curses against America caused him to decide on his assassination,arguing the commander had been “down on” their “list”.
President Trump told Republican donors Friday evening that Qasem Soleimani,the top Iranian commander that was assassinated on POTUS’ orders in a droneattack in Baghdad, was “saying bad things” about the US before his death,as follows from an audio of his remarks obtained by CNNlink.
At a fundraiser at Mar-a-Lago, Trump recounted in detail what happened inthe Iraqi capital earlier this month, before querying emotionally:
“How much of this shit do we have to listen to? How much are we going tolisten to?”
Trump said Soleimani, who had earlier been portrayed by the American sideas “an imminent threat”linktoUS personnel abroad, was “a noted terrorist” who “was down on our list”and “was supposed to be in his country” before going to Iraq, Sputnik hasreported.
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“He was supposed to be invincible”, Trump said of Soleimani, understood tobe the second most powerful man in Iran after Supreme Leader Ayatollah AliKhamenei, pointing to his purported role as Tehran’s puppet master behindproxy wars in the region.
The US also holds Soleimani responsible for the deaths of hundreds of UStroops in Iraq at the hands of Iran-backed forces, while also citing hisalleged plans to launch new attacks against US military personnel in theMiddle East and beyond.
Earlier, on his soon-to-be-formally-started campaign trail, Trump alsopraised the Soleimani assassination, which closely followed an earlyJanuary raid on the US Embassy in Baghdad, along with an operationconducted late last year that killed Daesh leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
