President Trump told Fox News in an interview airing Friday night that the imminent threat from Iran that provoked the US to kill top Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani involved planned attacks on four US embassies.
Trump a day earlier cited a planned attack on the US Embassy in Baghdad but he elaborated during the interview with Laura Ingraham that it involved three others as well.
“I can reveal that I believe it probably would’ve been four embassies,” the commander-in-chief told Fox in an interview that will appear on the network at 10 p.m. eastern time.
He did not specify where the other three embassies are located.
The administration repeatedly said that the strike was an act of self-defense to prevent what it described as an “imminent threat” against US interests and troops.
Earlier Friday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was questioned on the specifics of that threat as reporters quizzed him on what he meant by “imminent.”
“We had specific information on an imminent threat and that threat stream included attacks on US embassies. Period. Full stop,” Pompeo said.
Asked what he meant by imminent, he replied: “It was going to happen.”
Trump on Thursday ripped Soleimani.
“I will say this, we caught a total monster and we took him out and that should have happened a long time ago. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy,” he said, offering the administration’s first specific reason for killing Soleimani last Friday.
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