Iraqi parliament votes for the nation's government to work on a plan to end the presence of US troops in Iraq. Follow live updates.
Photo by Mark Wilson/Getty Imagesthreats to Iran as the US braces for potential retaliatory actions by the country following an attack last week by US forces that killed Iran's top military leader.
"The American people should know that we will not waver. We will be bold in protecting American interests and we will do so in a way that is consistent with the rule of law," Pompeo told CNN's Jake Tapper on"State of the Union.""We're trying to restore deterrence that frankly is a need that results directly from the fact that the previous administration left us in a terrible place with respect to the Islamic Republic of Iran ...
Though the President has claimed Soleimani was planning attacks on US forces and that the action was taken"to stop a war," he vowed specific military action against Iran if it"strikes any Americans, or American assets."
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