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The United States attempted to attack another Iranian military on the same day of the operation against Soleimani

2020-01-10T23:50:13.930Z


The same night the United States Army executed the operation against Qasem Soleimani, another senior Iranian officer in Yemen was also unsuccessfully attacked, according to two sources.


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(CNN) - The same night that the United States Army carried out the operation in which the Iranian commander Qasem Soleimani died, another Iranian senior officer in Yemen was also unsuccessfully attacked, according to a US official with knowledge of the facts and other familiar source.

The sources, however, did not give any details of the mission or how the US He tried to execute it. The US official said that, according to what he knows, there is currently no broader operation to behead the leadership in the Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.

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In a statement sent to CNN, Pentagon spokeswoman Rebecca Rebarich acknowledged seeing the report of the operation, but declined to provide additional information.

“We have seen the report of an air attack on January 2 in Yemen, which has long been considered a safe space for terrorists and other adversaries in the United States. The Department of Defense does not discuss alleged operations in the region, ”Rebarich said in the statement.

Despite the Pentagon's claim, the US Department of Defense and the Central Command have routinely issued official statements about US attacks in Yemen.

The Washington Post was the first to report that the operation in Yemen took place.

According to The Washington Post, the Iranian goal was Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander of the Quds Force of Iran, an elite wing of that country's Army operating throughout the Middle East.

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In December, the special representative of the State Department for Iran, Brian Hook, announced that the government was offering "up to $ 15 million for information on financial activities, networks and partners of Abdul Reza Shahlai."

The news of this additional operation occurs while senior US national security officials. They continue to defend the Trump administration's claim that the attack against Soleimani was executed in response to an imminent threat to American lives, but the lack of evidence provided to lawmakers and the public has fueled persistent skepticism as to whether the measure was justified. .

Legislators demand answers

This new development in the news is already raising more questions in front of the government's explanation to execute the operation against Soleimani.

“Congress needs answers. What was the total scope of the Trump administration's plans to assassinate Iranian officials? How is the attempted murder in Yemen related to an imminent threat? ”Democratic representative Ro Khanna of California posted on Twitter as a reaction to the news.

The Pentagon has blamed Soleimani and the Quds Force for attacks on coalition bases in Iraq in recent months, including the December 27 offensive in which an American contractor and Iraqi personnel died. Soleimani was also responsible for the attack on the US embassy on December 31 in Baghdad, and the US Army. He said he was responsible for killing hundreds of people and injuring thousands in his time as commander.

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“We catch a total monster. We take it out. And that should have happened a long time ago. We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy, ​​”President Donald Trump told reporters on Thursday.

“We also did it for other reasons that were very obvious. Someone died ... people were seriously injured just a week before. And we did it. We had a chance ... that was the end of a monster, ”Trump added, referring to a recent rocket attack in Iraq by an Iran-backed militia group, the Khatib Hezbollah. In fact, a US contractor died and several members of the country's military personnel were injured.

Trump said in an interview with Fox News on Friday that Soleimani was targeting four embassies before he died in the attack.

The president’s comments came after two major Senate Republicans and Congressional Democrats on Wednesday criticized the government briefing on the reasoning of the attack following statements by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Secretary of Defense Mark Esper.

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Multiple lawmakers said they did not see specific intelligence about an imminent threat from Soleimani that would justify the attack.

Yemen conflict

The US military has carried out air strikes against affiliated groups of Al Qaeda and ISIS in Yemen and, at times, has also deployed small anti-terrorist teams on the ground to attack these terrorist organizations.

The United States also provides very limited and non-combat support to the Saudi-led coalition that supports the Yemeni government in its struggle with the Houthis, who receive assistance from Iran.

Although the United States has completed its air refueling practice for Saudi and Emirati planes since the year, it still continues to share intelligence focused on countering Houthi attacks with missiles and drones, as well as offering advice on processes and procedures aimed at preventing civilian casualties.

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The United States has long accused Iran of supplying Houthis with missiles and other sophisticated weapons they have used in those attacks.

The conflict in Yemen began in early 2015 when the Houthi rebels, a Shiite minority group from the north of the country, expelled the US-backed government and seized the capital, Sanaa.

The crisis quickly escalated to a multidimensional war, with neighboring Saudi Arabia leading a coalition of Gulf states against the Houthi rebels.

A report of the Armed Conflict Location & Event Datal project, published last June, found that more than 91,000 people have died in the conflict since 2015. He also recorded that the coalition led by Saudi Arabia and its allies had been responsible for more than 8,000 people. the approximately 11,700 deaths related to the direct targeting of civilians in the conflict.

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Last year, in a rare moment of bipartisanship, both the House and the Senate passed a resolution (SR7) that called on the Trump administration to end all hostilities in Yemen that were not expressly authorized by Congress. President Donald Trump vetoed the resolution in April and support for the Saudi-led effort in Yemen is still continuing.

The Trump administration has insisted that the president's job is to promulgate US foreign policy and that any attempt to limit his authority is inappropriate. In his veto message in response to SR7, the president argued that it was Congress that exceeded its limits.

"This resolution is an unnecessary and dangerous attempt to weaken my constitutional authorities, putting the lives of American citizens and brave service members at risk, both now and in the future," Trump wrote.

Jennifer Hansler of CNN contributed to this report.

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