Iranian Guards Gen. Salami Says Missile Strike Did Not Aim to Kill US Troops

A man holds a picture of late Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, as people celebrate in the street after Iran launched missiles at U.S.-led forces in Iraq, in Tehran, Iran on Jan. 8, 2020. (Nazanin Tabatabaee/WANA (West Asia News Agency) via Reuters)

Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said Sunday that the missile strikes on Iraqi bases holding U.S. troops were not intended to kill last week.

“Our aim was not really to kill enemy soldiers. That was not important,” the Guards’ commander, Gen. Hossein Salami, told parliament, according to the AFP news agency.