Trump: 4 Embassies Were Targeted in Imminent Threat From Iran Before Airstrike
President Donald Trump said Iran had targeted four American embassies before the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani a week ago�the clearest details yet on the intelligence U.S. officials had gathered ahead of the airstrike in Baghdad.
�We will tell you, probably it was going to be the embassy in Baghdad,� Trump said in an interview with Fox News�s Laura Ingraham on Friday, adding, �I can reveal that I think it would�ve been four embassies.� On Thursday, he told reporters Iran was �looking to blow up� the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also told reporters on Friday at the White House that �attacks on U.S. embassies� would have likely been targeted by Iranian assets. �We don�t know exactly which day it would have been executed, but it was very clear: Qassem Soleimani himself was plotting a broad, large-scale attack against American interests, and those attacks were imminent,� Pompeo later told CBS News.
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�We will tell you, probably it was going to be the embassy in Baghdad,� Trump said in an interview with Fox News�s Laura Ingraham on Friday, adding, �I can reveal that I think it would�ve been four embassies.� On Thursday, he told reporters Iran was �looking to blow up� the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo also told reporters on Friday at the White House that �attacks on U.S. embassies� would have likely been targeted by Iranian assets. �We don�t know exactly which day it would have been executed, but it was very clear: Qassem Soleimani himself was plotting a broad, large-scale attack against American interests, and those attacks were imminent,� Pompeo later told CBS News.
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