“We took action last night to stop a war, we did not take action to start a war.” – Donald Trump
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Donald Trump has said the US airstrike that killed a top Iranian general was designed to prevent a war with Iran – not start one.
Sky News reports that the US president claimed Major General Qassem Soleimani had been planning “imminent and sinister attacks on US diplomats and military personnel” before he died in Friday morning’s drone strike in Iraq.
In an address from his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, Mr Trump said: “What the US did yesterday should have been done long ago – a lot of lives would have been saved. “We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.”
New York Times reports Trump saying that Suleimani was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel, but we caught him in the act and terminated him.
“We took action last night to stop a war, we did not take action to start a war.”
Trump said the United States is not seeking regime change in Iran, but called for Tehran’s “aggression in the region” to immediately end. He also warned Iran against retaliating, saying, “If Americans anywhere are threatened, we have all of those targets already fully identified, and I am ready and prepared to take whatever action is necessary.”
