A curious claim indeed, followed by an even more curious rebuttal. The US killed Qassem Soleimani, a commander in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, almost exactly four years ago in Iraq. Donald Trump ordered the operation in part as a reprisal for IRGC-proxy attacks on Americans and in part because US intel indicated that Soleimani was plotting an “imminent” larger-scale terror attack. At the time, Iran retaliated with a series of reprisals, which came to a screeching halt when they mistakenly destroyed a Ukrainian passenger jet and killed 176 civilians.
All of this took place within a space of a couple of weeks in January 2020. It had nothing at all to do with the Palestinian cause, and Israel had no part in the operation. Donald Trump made clear that the US conducted the strike over US security concerns in Iraq, as well as for American diplomatic facilities elsewhere….
