U.S. Secretary Of State Pompeo Defends The Decision To Launch A Drone Strike That Killed Iranian Quds General Soleimani

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joined FOX News Sunday to discuss breaking news regarding heightened US-Iran tensions in the wake of an attack that killed Soleimani. The Trump administration says he was planning imminent attacks. Secretary Pompeo reacts. #FNS #foxnews pic.twitter.com/zo7nkdtrZ1

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CNBC: Pompeo says intelligence was clear on Soleimani in response to skepticism about drone strike rationale

* Pompeo’s comments in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” follow reports that some senior White House officials were skeptical about the rationale for the drone 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,” Pompeo said.

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Sunday that the U.S. air strike that killed Iranian commander Qassem Soleimani has made the world safer, and that taking no action would have created more risk.

Pompeo’s comments in an interview on ABC’s “This Week” follow reports that some senior White House officials were skeptical about the rationale for the drone strike, which they viewed as the most extreme and improbable option in response to Iranian-led violence in Iraq.

“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,” Pompeo told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

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