translated from Spanish: Trump’s justification for “avoiding a war”

The United States —- U.S. President Donald Trump said on Friday that he is not seeking “regime change” in Tehran after ordering the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad. We recommend: The keys to understanding the US-Iran conflict Trump claimed to have acted to “stop” a war, not to start one, and justified his decision by claiming that Soleimani prepared “imminent” attacks against US diplomats and military. “Soleimani had turned the deaths of innocents into a disgusting passion,” Trump declared, before threatening the “terrorists.” “We’ll find them. We’ll eliminate them. We will always protect our diplomats, our soldiers, all Americans and our allies,” he added from his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. “I have a deep respect for the Iranian people,” he added. “We are not seeking regime change.” In tune, the head of American diplomacy, Mike Pompeo, said in a tweet that his country is “committed to de-escalation” of tension with Iran, following the death of Soleimani, head of the powerful Quds forces, elite paramilitary arm. The secretary of state told CNN that Soleimani was preparing “a major attack” that threatened “hundreds of American lives.” On Twitter, Pompeo claimed that he spoke with his Chinese, British and German peers about Donald Trump’s “decision to eliminate Soleimani.” “The United States remains committed to de-escalating, ” he added. Iran’s permanent ambassador to the UN, Majid Takht-Ravanchi, assured that Soleimani’s death is an “act of war” and ruled that there will be a “hard revenge.” “We can’t close our eyes to what happened last night. There will definitely be revenge,” the diplomat noted in an interview with THE U.S. station CNN. Ravanchi noted that with the drone strike on the vehicle in which Soleimani and the vice-president of the Iraqi Shiite popular crowd, Abu Mahdi al Mohandes militias were traveling, the US began a “military war.” “Then what else can you expect from Iran? We can’t stay silent. We must act and we will act,” said the ambassador, who argued that the response for “military action is military action.” However hours after Pompeo’s statements, the US carried out a new bombardment against the pro-Iranians in Iraq. There were “killed and wounded” in an aerial bombardment north of Baghdad against a convoy of the Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd al Shaabi, a coalition of pro-Iranian paramilitaries now integrated into the Iraqi state, local police members said. In a conflicting news war, Iraqi state news agency INA denied that the attack occurred.
Original source: www.milenio.com/internacional/estados-unidos/trump-justifica-ataque-para-detener-la-guerra

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