President Donald Trump has come out to say that the US airstrike that killed a top Iranian general was solely to prevent a war with Iran and not to start one.
President Trump said that Major General Qassem Soleimani had been planning “imminent and sinister attacks on US diplomats and military personnel” before he was killed in Friday’s drone strike near Baghdad airport.
Speaking 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.”
Hours later, Iraqi army sources claim that another airstrike targeting militia forces on the Taji road north of Baghdad which killed at least six people.
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