Pence Says Iran Intended to Kill Americans: Iran Update
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Iran intended to kill Americans in its missile attack that struck two U.S. bases, Vice President Mike Pence said, contradicting a Pentagon analysis described by people familiar with the matter and comments by an Iranian military official.
Pence, in a pair of interviews aired Thursday morning, dismissed suggestions that Iran may have intentionally aimed its missiles away from populated areas of the Ayn al-Asad air base and one near the city of Erbil.
“There’s no doubt in my mind that when the Iranians fired those missiles, they were intending to kill Americans,” Pence told Fox News. In a separate interview with NBC, he added: “The ballistic missiles fired at American bases al-Asad and Erbil we believe were intended to kill Americans. We have intelligence to support that that was the intention of the Iranians.”
A Pentagon analysis of the attack suggested the missiles were aimed at unpopulated parts of the bases, according to the people familiar with the matter. Satellite imagery of the bases provided by Planet Labs showed damaged aircraft hangers and other structures at the al-Asad airbase in western Iraq following the strike. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps said they were targeting American military equipment, not troops.
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