The British ambassador to Iran was also briefly arrested on Saturday, the State Department said. Robert Macaire, the British envoy, was released shortly after he was identified, Iran's deputy foreign minister said on Sunday.
Mr. Trump said Friday that four U.S. embassies, including the American Embassy in Baghdad, were targeted in a planned attack orchestrated by Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in an American drone strike last week. The president made the new comments in a Fox News interview as his administration faces pressure to provide more information about the imminent threat Iran's top general posed that justified the U.S. strike.
Defense Secretary Mark Esper told "Face the Nation" that he "didn't see" specific evidence showing such a plot against U.S. embassies but said he believed Iran was "going to go after our embassies."
Schiff: Trump "fudging" intelligence to justify Soleimani strike
"When you hear the president out there on Fox, he is fudging the intelligence," Schiff said Sunday on "Face the Nation," referencing an interview the president conducted with Fox News last week. "When you hear the [defense] secretary say, 'Well, that wasn't what the intelligence said, but that's my personal belief,' he is fudging. When Secretary Pompeo was on your show last week and made the claim that the intelligence analysis was that taking Soleimani out would improve our security and leaving him in would make us less safe, that is also fudging. That is not an intelligence conclusion, that's Pompeo's personal opinion."
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