President Donald Trump on Friday defended his order to kill a top Iranian general about 24 hours earlier on Thursday, accusing him of 'plotting imminent and sinister attacks' on American diplomats and military personnel. This is a developing story.
President Donald Trump on Friday defended his order to kill a top Iranian general about 24 hours earlier on Thursday, accusing him of"plotting imminent and sinister attacks" on American diplomats and military personnel.
Making a short statement at Mar-a-Lago, Trump said,"We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war.""His reign of terror is over," he said. "Last night at my direction, the United States military successfully executed a flawless precision strike that killed the number one terrorist anywhere in the world,: Trump said.
"What the United States did yesterday should have been done long ago," he said, adding a lot of lives could have been saved. “The United States has the best military, by far, anywhere in the world, Trump said."We have the best intelligence in the world. 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.”"We do not seek regime change," Trump said, but said Iran's use of proxy fighters"to destabilize its neighbors" must"end now." This is a developing story.
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