assassination last week of iran's top military command general cassim samani secretary pompei o defended president to trumpet decision to kill the general saying that your brain attack against u.s. interests was imminent the goal of our campaign. is to deny the regime the resources to conduct its destructive foreign policy we want iran to simply behave like a normal nation we believe the sanctions that we imposed today further that strategic objective we had specific emanation information on an imminent threat and those threats stream included attacks on us embassies period full stop i don't know exactly which minute we don't know exactly which day it would have been executed but it was very clear customs of the mahdi himself was plotting a broad large scale attack against american interests and those attacks were imminent against american facilities including american embassies military bases american facilities throughout the region this is i think. straight to washington that when he joined the correspondent popular phone they welcome. the u.s. is ultimate goal is to follow what they