Crenshaw: Time to Kill Another Iranian General?
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, provokes Iran with reference to the U.S./Israel assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani during Trump years
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, joined the chorus of warmongering politicians on Sunday who called on the Biden administration to use the weekend’s deadly attack on a U.S. base “near the Syrian border” to justify all-out war with Iran because the attacks were allegedly carried out by “extreme Iranian militias.”
Crenshaw tried to mock Iran by suggesting that the U.S. carry out another assassination — an obvious reference to the Trump-era illegal assassination of Gen. Qasem Soleimani.
“No more weak, ‘proportionate’ responses,” the brave representative posted on X. “Weakness invites aggression and escalation. Time to kill another Iranian general, perhaps? That might send the right message.”
Soleimani met his fate on 3 January 2020 when killed in a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport. Former President Trump said at the time that he ordered the precision strike to kill the commander because he was planning “imminent and sinister attacks” on U.S. forces in the region.
On 9 January 2020, Vice President Mike Pence said the administration could not provide Congress with some of the “most compelling” intelligence behind the administration’s decision to kill Soleimani because doing so “could compromise” sources and methods.
Iran called the strike an act of terrorism in a letter to the United Nations.
Limited details were ever released about the strike, but few had any doubt that Israel played a supporting role.
Tamir Hayman, the former head of Israel’s military intelligence, said in an interview about a year later that “Soleimani’s assassination is an achievement, since our main enemy, in my eyes, are the Iranians. Two significant and important assassinations can be noted in my term,” he said, without mentioning the other killing.”