The Trump administration is under pressure to provide evidence of the intelligence behind its killing of Major General Qassem Soleimani
An Iranian woman lights a candle in memory of the victims of the Ukraine Boeing 737 passenger planeafter Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps said they shot down the Ukraine International Airlines jet.: The Trump administration discussed the option of killing Iran’s top military figure Qassem Soleimani as far back as June, undermining President Donald Trump’s claim that he acted to thwart imminent attacks on U.S. embassies.
, the leader of the Quds Force of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard, in a drone strike on January 3. President Trump had earlier claimed that he acted out of the belief that Soleimani was masterminding imminent attacks on U.S. embassies in the Middle East.
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