Fox News senior White House correspondent John Roberts dismissed the Iranian government’s retaliatory strike against the United States in response to the attack that killed one of the country’s top generals, Qassem Soleimani.
Iran attacked at least two U.S. airbases with more than a dozen ballistic missiles on Tuesday night, but there were no casualties. Roberts noted, in the lead up to President Trump’s Wednesday address to the country, that if this is the extent of Iran’s retaliation, then the U.S. would have “the upper hand.”
“When you look at what’s transpired over the last week, the United States has eliminated a person who was deemed a terrorist by the Obama administration,” Roberts stated. “Qassem Soleimani, a man who was responsible — at least directly or indirectly — for so many American deaths in Iraq during the war there. And to some degree in Afghanistan, as well. And Iran has only managed to put off what is essentially a big, loud fireworks display in the middle of the desert without hitting anything significant.”
“They [the United States] have gotten rid of what is literally, for all intents and purposes, the No. 2 person in the Iranian regime. A person who cannot be easily replaced by the next person in line,” he continued.
Trump directed U.S. forces to launch an airstrike that resulted in Soleimani’s death citing imminent threats to harm Americans abroad on Thursday. The strike was also in retaliation for orchestrating “attacks on coalition bases in Iraq over the last several months,” according to a statement from the Pentagon.
