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WEDNESDAY, MAY 28, 2025
Timing of threat from Soleimani 'doesn't really matter': Trump

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Reuters
14 January, 2020, 11:30 am
Last modified: 14 January, 2020, 01:45 pm

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Timing of threat from Soleimani 'doesn't really matter': Trump

US lawmakers, including some Republicans as well as Democrats, have said the administration has failed to provide evidence that an attack was imminent

Reuters
14 January, 2020, 11:30 am
Last modified: 14 January, 2020, 01:45 pm
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2016/ Reuters
Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump speaks at a campaign rally in Fort Worth, Texas, February 26, 2016/ Reuters

US President Donald Trump fuelled controversy on Monday over his decision to kill Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani by saying "it doesn't really matter" whether Soleimani posed an imminent threat to the United States.

"The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Soleimani was 'imminent' or not, & was my team in agreement," Trump wrote on Twitter.

"The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn't really matter because of his horrible past!"

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The Fake News Media and their Democrat Partners are working hard to determine whether or not the future attack by terrorist Soleimani was "imminent" or not, & was my team in agreement. The answer to both is a strong YES., but it doesn't really matter because of his horrible past!

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 13, 2020

Democrats, who are trying to pass legislation to rein in Trump's ability to wage war on Iran without lawmakers' approval, have sharply disagreed.

"You cannot take military action against another nation without congressional consent unless to defend against an imminent attack," Democratic Senator Chris Murphy said on Twitter.

"It's clear now this was an illegal action. That also has made America less safe," he said, noting an NBC News report that Trump authorized the killing of Soleimani seven months ago.

Morning.

You cannot take military action against another nation without congressional consent unless to defend against an imminent attack.

It's clear now this was an illegal action. That also has made America less safe. https://t.co/d8c54TFyy6— Chris Murphy (@ChrisMurphyCT) January 13, 2020

Since confirming Soleimani was killed by a US airstrike in Baghdad, administration officials have said they acted because of an imminent risk of attacks on American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region.

Soleimani was the head of the Revolutionary Guards Quds Force, which handles clandestine operations outside Iran, working closely with militias in the region blamed for attacks on US interests.

But US lawmakers, including some Republicans as well as Democrats, have said the administration has failed to provide evidence that an attack was imminent.

Trump's fellow Republicans have justified the killing by citing Soleimani's history, and accuse Democrats of playing politics. Relations between the two parties are at a particularly difficult juncture, given the vote last year to impeach Trump in the Democratic-led House and his upcoming trial in the Republican-led Senate.

Attorney General William Barr told reporters on Monday that the White House consulted with his department before the strike. Barr said Soleimani was a "legitimate military target" and the strike was a "legitimate act of self-defence."

'Deterrence'

As he opened the Senate on Monday, Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blasted Democrats for "letting their domestic political grievances pollute their judgement of world affairs" and praised Trump's "bold action."

"We appear to have restored a measure of deterrence in the Middle East. So let's not screw it up," McConnell said.

Democrats and a few Republicans in Congress have said they have not been given adequate, detailed briefings.

They also argue that the US Constitution gives Congress, not the president, the authority to declare war, and called for the Senate and House of Representatives to act to take that authority back from the White House.

The House voted nearly along party lines last week to pass a war powers resolution that would force the president to seek congressional approval for further military action against Iran.

A companion measure has been introduced in the Senate. McConnell said he expected to debate on it to start "very soon" and pledged to strongly oppose it.

Last week Trump posited in an interview that Iran had been poised to attack four American embassies before Soleimani was killed in a US drone strike on Jan. 3. But on Sunday US Defense Secretary Mark Esper said he did not see specific evidence that Iran was planning an attack.

"What the president said was that there probably could be additional attacks against embassies. I shared that view," Esper said. "The president didn't cite a specific piece of evidence."

When pressed on whether intelligence officers offered concrete evidence on that point, Esper said: "I didn't see one with regards to four embassies."

Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer called Trump's foreign policy "erratic, impulsive and without regard for long-term consequences" and argued the attack on Soleimani made Americans less safe. He urged support for the war powers measure.

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