Joe Biden said the death of Qassem Soleimani would increase the risk of a war and might trigger “multiple attacks” by Iran.
Speaking Friday, Biden criticized the drone strike against the Iranian military commander. He said the Middle East is already on the brink of another war and that “the risk has been made much worse by President Trump’s policies.”
The former vice president said that the attack against Soleimani could lead to “multiple Iranian attacks by multiple means on multiple targets.”
He also contrasted Trump’s foreign policy in the region to former President Barack Obama’s and said that Obama had put the threat of war with Iran “on the back burner,” but now it is “back on the table.”
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Biden on Iran: “Does Donald Trump and his administration have a strategy for what comes next?”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) January 3, 2020
Biden: Trump’s “maximum pressure” campaign has failed on multiple counts. The latest action puts US “on brink of a major new conflict in the Middle East.” Says the threat that the Obama administration had “put on the back burner” is now “back on the table.”
— Mike Memoli (@mikememoli) January 3, 2020
Soleimani, 62, was killed in a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad International Airport along with Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, leader of the Iranian-backed Popular Mobilization Forces.
