Biden needs a big win tomorrow to keep campaign momentumPompeo appearing before House committee on foreign affairsSupport the Guardian’s independent journalism. Make a contribution 2.01pm GMT The session has now returned to the discussion of Qassem Suleimani, and the US strike to kill him.Pompeo said that “He was in the region actively plotting to kill Americans” and that “It was my judgement that this reduced risks to America to take this strike.”Qassem Suleimani, killed by a US drone strike in Baghdad, had become well known among Iranians and was sometimes discussed as a future president. Many considered Suleimani to have been the second most powerful person in Iran, behind supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei, but arguably ahead of President Hassan Rouhani. He was commander of the Quds Force, the elite, external wing of the Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, which the Trump administration designated as a terror organisation in April last year. 1.51pm GMT Although the theme of the House Foreign Affairs Committee session this morning was due to be Iran and Iraq, discussion has immediately and inevitably pivoted to discussing the coronavirus outbreak. Rhode Island Democrat David Cicilline attacked the administration, saying that after three years the American people weren’t sure they could trust the government to handle the crisis Continue reading…
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President Trump called me for a chat on Saturday. It was our first conversation since he unfollowed me on Twitter in April after I wrote a Mail column telling him to ‘Shut the f*ck up Read more…