Trump Ordered Military Attack on Iranian General Qassem Soleimani to Protect US Personnel

(L) President Donald Trump listens to Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speak during their meeting on Nov. 30, 2018 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP) (R) Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani attends an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution, in Tehran, Iran on Feb. 11, 2016. Ebrahim Noroozi/AP Photo

The Department of Defense confirmed that the U.S. military killed the Iranian regime’s top military general Qassem Soleimani at the direction of President Donald Trump.

Soleimani, the head of Iran’s elite Quds Force, was killed by a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad International Airport early Friday morning local time.