Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday on ABC's 'This Week,' that the world is a safer place as a result of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani's death. NEW: Pressed by @GStephanopoulos on his claim that the 'world is a safer place' amid escalating tensions and threats
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday on ABC's"This Week," that the world is a safer place as a result of Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani's death.
"I think General Milley used the term, we would have been culpably negligent had we not taken this strike. The intelligence assessment made clear that no action allowing Soleimani to continue his plotting and his planning -- his terror campaign -- created more risk than taking the action that we took last week. We reduced risks," Pompeo said.
"We're having to clean up their mess," Pompeo said of the Obama administration, adding"we'll do everything required under the law to bring us into compliance with all the relevant Constitutional legal provisions with respect to our duties with the legislative branch." "Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader," Trump tweeted Saturday evening -- warning the U.S. had 52 Iranian sites,"some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture" that it would"HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD" if Iran retaliated.
"The American people should know that every target that we strike will be a lawful target, and it will be a target designed with a singular mission, of protecting and defending America,” he added. Sporadic missile attacks erupted across Iraq on Saturday, at times seeming to target facilities where U.S. troops are stationed. A rocket attack at Al Balad Air Base, an Iraqi facility north of Baghdad, injured three Iraqi security forces, but no American personnel, according to a U.S. official. Two rockets also fell within the Green Zone, the secure section of Baghdad that houses central government buildings and foreign embassies, but the U.S. embassy was not affected.
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