U.S. President Donald Trump says the killing of Gen. Qassem Soleimani was not undertaken in an effort to begin a conflict with Iran.
Speaking to reporters in Florida for the first time since the drone strike on Soleimani, Trump says: "We took action last night to stop a war. We did not take action to start a war."
Trump also says he does not seek regime change in Iran, but the nation's use of "proxy fighters to destabilize its neighbors must end and it must end now."