US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo says the airstrike ordered to kill top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani 'saved American lives.' Pompeo said earlier this morning the decision to eliminate Soleimani was in response to 'imminent threats to American lives.'
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the airstrike ordered to kill top Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani"saved American lives," after Pompeo said on Twitter Friday morning that the decision to eliminate Soleimani was in response to"imminent threats to American lives."
"I can't talk too much about the nature of the threats. But the American people should know that the President's decision to remove Soleimani from the battlefield saved American lives," Pompeo said on CNN's"New Day" Friday.Pompeo said Soleimani was"actively plotting" in the region to"take big action, as he described it, that would have put hundreds of lives at risk.
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