Pompeo Won’t Attend Congressional Hearing on Killing of Iran’s Soleimani: Engel

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo holds a press briefing at the State Department in Washington on Jan. 7, 2020. Charlotte Cuthbertson/The Epoch Times

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo won’t attend a congressional hearing on the killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, according to House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel (D-N.Y.).

Soleimani, a terrorist who headed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ Quds Force, was taken out by a U.S. drone strike in Baghdad on Jan. 3.