Trump claims Iranian general was plotting to "blow up our embassy"

Washington — President Trump added a new piece of information to his administration's justification for the deadly strike to kill Iran's top military leader, claiming on Thursday that Major General Qassem Soleimani was planning to "blow up our embassy" in the days before his death.

At an unrelated event at the White House, reporters pressed him on complaints by members of Congress, including some Republicans, that administration officials who briefed lawmakers on Wednesday had failed to provide sufficient justification for the strike and had chided members for debating the matter.

"We did it because they were looking to blow up our embassy," the president said, presumably referring to the U.S. compound in Baghdad, which was the focus of angry protests by pro-Iranian demonstrators less than two weeks ago. The administration has claimed Soleimani was planning an "imminent" attack to kill Americans but has declined to elaborate on specific plots or the intelligence underpinning their assertions, saying that doing so would compromise intelligence sources and methods.

"We also did it for other reasons that were very obvious," Mr. Trump continued. "Somebody died, one of our military people died, people were badly wounded just a week before. And we did it."

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Why didn't they blow it up when they overran the place then?