Trump tweets after the U.S. kills Iranian general: 'He should have been taken out many years ago!'
The attack also intensified already-high tensions between the United States and Iran. Soleimani led the special Quds Force unit of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards and has been blamed for the deaths of hundreds of Americans and many other across the Middle East. The Pentagon said he had been actively planning attack on U.S. diplomats and service members in Iraq and elsewhere throughout the region.for several attacks on bases in Iraq.
Before the airstrike on Soleimani, pro-Iranian demonstrators swarmed the fortified U.S. Embassy compound in the Iraqi capital to protest a U.S. attack on Sunday that killed about two-dozen members of an Iranian-backed group called Kataeb Hezbollah. Sunday's attack came two days after an American contractor was killed during a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base in Kirkuk.
Trump has also repeatedly vowed that he wants to halt America's "endless wars," particularly in the Middle East.
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