Defense secretary gets Trump’s OK for reprisal attack on Iran over US servicemen deaths in Iraq

Published March 12, 2020 5:13pm ET



President Trump has given Defense Secretary Mark Esper authority to strike back at Iran following a rocket attack by an Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Iraq that killed two U.S. servicemen and wounded others.

“You don’t get to shoot at our bases and kill and wound Americans and get away with it,” Esper said Thursday of the attack at Camp Taji the prior night.

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