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Tehran launched “tens” of surface-to-surface missiles at Iraq’s Ain Assad air base housing U.S. troops over America’s killing of a top Iranian general, Iranian state TV confirmed early Wednesday.
Revolutionary Guard Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed Jan. 3 in a drone strike approved by the White House. The operation, named “Martyr Soleimani,” targeted a military base in Iraq’s western Anbar province, first used by American forces after the 2003 U.S.-led invasion that toppled dictator Saddam Hussein. The same base later saw American troops stationed there amid the fight against the Islamic State group in Iraq and Syria.
State TV said the Guard’s aerospace division, which controls Iran’s missile program, launched the attack. The Islamic Republic’s retaliatory strike took place one day after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced that Congress would introduce and vote on a “War Powers Resolution to limit the President’s military actions regarding Iran” amid rising tension:
“The Trump Administration’s provocative, escalatory and disproportionate military engagement continues to put service members, diplomats and citizens of America and our allies in danger,” Pelosi wrote in a statement about the letter. “This initiation of hostilities was taken without an Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) against Iran, without the consultation of the Congress and without the articulation of a clear and legitimate strategy to either the Congress or the public.”
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