Defense Secretary Mark Esper and other administration officials joined President
Donald Trump in trying to draw attention to dissent in
Iran instead of lingering questions about the scale of the threat used to justify a drone strike on Iran’s top military leader.
Esper added to the uncertainty over the intelligence behind this month's killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani when he said Sunday that he had seen no hard evidence that four
American embassies had been under possible threat.
Trump said last Friday that Soleimani had been planning such an attack.