In a recording broadcast by the American channel CNN, Donald Trump recounts second by second the last moments that preceded the deadly strike against Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.
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Donald Trump at a meeting in Battle Creek, Michigan, December 18, 2019 (Photo Illustration). | LEAH MILLIS / REUTERS
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Cameras “Miles in the sky”, a countdown and then “Boom” : Donald trump Told the final moments of the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, killed by the US military in a strike that “shook the world”.
The story was told by the President of the United States on Friday evening to Republican Party donors gathered in his residence in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, for one of the many private fundraising dinners he chains.
Chain CNN released a sound recording it procured on Saturday, in which we hear the billionaire speak of the high ranking Guardian of the Revolution, the ideological army of the Islamic Republic of Iran, eliminated on January 3 at the airport from Baghdad with his Iraqi lieutenant Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis.
“He was supposed to be invincible”, he launched.
“How long do we have to listen to this shit? “
According to him, before the strike that targeted him in the Iraqi capital, “He said bad things about our country. He said, like, “We’re going to attack your country, we’re going to kill your people. I said, “How long do we have to listen to this shit?” »»
Donald Trump then reproduced the scene, imitating the soldiers who spoke to him as he followed the operation simultaneously from the United States.
“They said, ‘Sir – and you know, it comes from cameras miles in the sky.- They are together, Sir […] They have two minutes and eleven seconds to live. They are in the car. They are in an armored vehicle that is in motion. Sir, they have about a minute to live, Sir … 30 seconds, 10, 9, 8 … “And then suddenly,” boom “. “They are no longer there, sir. »»
The American president was delighted to have eliminated it ” Two for the price of one “ (Qassem Soleimani and Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis).
He recognized that the strike had “Rocked the world”, but, he said, “He deserved to be hit hard”. “Because he was mean, he killed […] hundreds of thousands of people and thousands of Americans “, he added about the Iranian general.
Iran retaliated a few days later by firing missiles against American targets in Iraq, but did not kill anyone. In the wake of these reprisals, however, the Iranian army shot dead ” by mistake “ a Ukrainian airliner departing from Tehran, killing 176 people.
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