CNN’s verification of Trump’s lies about Iran’s attack on Ain al-Assad

Fars News Agency International Group; “Did you know that they (Iran) called me to say that ‘we are going to target a certain place but we don’t want to hit it (Ain al-Assad). It is going to take place outside of there (missile attack)'” these are the new claims of the president President of the United States Donald Trump is in a new interview with “Fox News” network.

CNN network evaluated Trump’s claims in his “fact check” section and wrote that he claimed repeated what he had raised many times in recent months in his election campaigns.

According to this report, the former US president claimed in his interview that Iran deliberately refrained from attacking the Ain al-Assad base in 2020 in revenge for the martyrdom of Qassem Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force, by Washington. .

Trump claimed that he controlled the Islamic Republic of Iran and that Iran intended to take revenge for the assassination of General Soleimani, and told Fox News, “We knew that we were not going to enter the trench Assad) to be attacked” but foreign observers are still puzzled as to how “they missed all the targets?”

CNN prefaced by clarifying that Trump’s claims that Iranian missiles did not hit the Ain al-Assad base were false because, as the Washington Post pointed out late last year in its fact-finding section Kurdistan, 11 Iranian missiles hit Ain al-Assad in a revenge attack.

On the other hand, satellite images confirmed the impact of Iranian missiles on the Ain al-Assad base, and the Pentagon and the CNN reporter’s visit to the base a few days after that attack confirmed this fact. proved.

A CNN reporter reported from Ain al-Assad base that year, “10 out of 11 missiles hit American positions at the air base in the vast desert of Iraq. One of the missiles It hit a remote place on the side of the Iraqi army”.

CNN also reported that Iranian missiles “succeeded in destroying sensitive US military sites and damaging a Special Forces compound and two shelters and a housing unit for US drone operators”.

Reports show that in Iran’s attack on Ain al-Assad in revenge for the blood of General Soleimani, more than 100 American soldiers suffered brain damage. He was in charge of the United States armed forces and told reporters that the intention of the Islamic Republic was to kill American soldiers.

According to CNN, Trump has not provided any reason for the claim that Iran contacted him to inform him of the attack and reassure him.

Washington Post reported at that time that the Iraqi prime minister had received a warning from Iran that they would respond to the assassination of General Soleimani and target the US military.

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