President Trump tweeted support to the Iranian protesters, warning the country’s leaders not to kill demonstrators who are protesting after the government admitted it had “unintentionally” shot down a jetliner earlier this week.
The British ambassador to Iran was 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.
