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Secretary of Defense Mark Esper at his end-of-year press conference at the Pentagon on December 20,: Defense Secretary Mark Esper said on Sunday he did not see specific evidence that Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was planning an attack on four U.S. embassies, despite President Donald Trump saying such an attack was “probably” imminent last week, further confusing the administration’s shifting rationale for the air strike that has heightened tensions with Iran.
Administration officials have repeatedly said that Soleimani was planning to attack U.S. assets but have thus far offered scant details about the intelligence underpinning those plans and have issued contradicting statements on the matter. On Thursday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo the U.S. didn’t know “precisely when and we didn’t know precisely where” the attacks would be carried out.Fox News
on Friday, “I can reveal that I believe it probably would’ve been four embassies,” when pressed on his rationale for the air strike. Esper’s response on Sunday: “Look, it’s always difficult, even with the exquisite intelligence that we have, to know exactly what the targets are. We knew there were threats to American facilities, now whether they were bases, embassies—you know it’s always hard until the attack happens.
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