Trump added that he was now “likewise demanding compensation from Iran, for all of the people that they have killed and gravely wounded with their roadside bombs and many conflicts” and falsely linked Iran to the 2000 bombing of the USS Cole off the coast of Yemen, an attack that, according to the FBI, was carried out by al-Qaeda. Trump said that Iran should also pay compensation to the families of “thousands of innocent protestors” and repeated the claim that Iranian security forces killed 52,000 people during the unrest in January, a number that has no basis.