Article snippet: During former President Barack Obama’s administration, the late Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) asked on Twitter whether Iranian elite Quds Force Gen. Qassem Soleimani would ever “pay a price” for killing many Americans and balking at U.S. sanctions against him and Iran. Now, thanks to President Donald Trump, Soleimani has actually paid the ultimate price: he has been killed in an airstrike in Baghdad, Iraq — a massive victory for President Trump but also a move that could send the region barreling towards even more escalations between the United States and Iran. In August 2015, Fox News reported that Soleimani violated U.S. sanctions to leave Iran to travel to Moscow and meet with Russian officials. On Aug. 6, 2015, during Obama’s administration, Fox News’s Jennifer Griffin and Lucas Tomlinson wrote: The report also quoted then-outgoing U.S. Army Chief of Staff Ray Odierno as saying that Soleimani killed many, many Americans during his time in power. “Qassem Soleimani is the one who has been exporting malign activities throughout the Middle East for some time now,” Odierno said. “He’s absolutely responsible for killing many Americans, in fact I would say the last two years I was there the majority of our casualties came from his surrogates, not Sunni or Al Qaeda.” The report also quotes now retired Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph Dunford — who served in the position from after the publication of this August 2015 Fox News report until the end of Septemb... Link to the full article to read more