Speaking exclusively to Jewish News, Hayman, currently the managing director of the Institute for National Security Studies, said, "Israel convinced the U.S. of Soleimani’s malign activities against Americans. [Before then,] the U.S. was mainly focused on fighting terror, not Iran. We supplied the intelligence and shared analysis and over a long period of time they were eventually convinced that Soleimani was an immediate threat to American lives and its strategic posture in the Middle East."
Then-U.S. President Trump echoed this idea when he told reporters that the senior Iranian official had been assassinated because he "was plotting imminent and sinister attacks on American diplomats and military personnel - but we caught him in the act and terminated him." READ MORE
