Pence incorrectly links Iran to 9/11 while trying to justify America's assassination of the country's top general

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• Vice President Mike Pence incorrectly linked Iran to the 9/11 terror attacks in a series of tweets on Friday. 
• Pence was tweeting about the US military's assassination of a top Iranian general, Qassem Soleimani, the day prior.
• The official government report on the events leading up to the attacks, known as the 9/11 Commission report, undermines Pence. 
• The report states there is "no evidence that Iran or Hezbollah was aware of the planning for what later became the 9/11 attack." Other reports have reached similar conclusions. 
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Vice President Mike Pence on Friday incorrectly and misleadingly linked Iran to the September 11, 2001, terror attacks in a series of tweets aimed at justifying the assassination of Iran's top general the day prior. 

The US killed Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani in a drone strike in Baghdad on Thursday, under the direct orders of President Donald Trump. 

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