Slain Iranian General Qassem Soleimani Sponsored Terror Attacks in Kenya, US Vice President Says

US Vice President Mike Pence has justified the killing of Iranian General, Qassem Soleimani, head of Iran's elite Quds Force.

Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike on Thursday, January 2nd in Baghdad, Iraq, was among those who financed terrorist attacks in Kenya and Turkey, according to Pence. In a tweet, Pence indicated that Soleimani oversaw the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps' (IRGC) financial, logistical, and military support to the Taliban and sponsored attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan.

"Directed IRGC QF (Quds Force) terrorist plots to bomb innocent civilians in Turkey and Kenya in 2011," Pence tweeted.

Pence said that Soleimani was planning to attack American diplomats and military personnel, adding that "the world is a safer place today because Soleimani is gone".

"President Donald Trump took decisive action and stood against the leading state sponsor of terror to take out an evil man who was responsible for killing thousands of Americans. Soleimani was a terrorist," Pence quipped.

The killing of Soleimani, one of the most powerful men in Iran, has raised tensions between the US and Iran, with the latter vowing to retaliate.