Ted Cruz leads GOP Senate push for resolution praising Soleimani killing

Published January 9, 2020 10:48pm ET



One of the Senate’s leading Iran critics introduced a resolution on Thursday praising the Trump administration’s successful airstrike last week against Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.

Sen. Ted Cruz and 42 Republican co-sponsors urged the Senate to express its support for killing the leader of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps and its Quds Force. The text of the resolution praises the U.S. military and intelligence community for their role in taking out the Iranian military leader and “commends the President for ordering the successful operations to locate and eliminate” him.

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