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Pence incorrectly links Iran to 9/11 while trying to justify America's assassination of the country's top general
Pence incorrectly links Iran to 9/11 while trying to justify America's assassination of the country's top general
Pence incorrectly links Iran to 9/11 while trying to justify America's assassination of the country's top general
tulc( )Vice President Mike Pence on Friday incorrectly and misleadingly linked Iran to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in a series of tweets aimed at justifying the assassination of Iran's top general the day prior.
The US killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on Thursday, under the direct orders of President Donald Trump.
As the Trump administration defended the assassination on Friday, the vice president in a tweet said that Soleimani had assisted "in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States."
But the official government report on the events leading up to the attacks, known as the 9/11 Commission report, undermines Pence.
The report states there is "no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attack."