Steve Kerr, a National Basketball Association (NBA) coach, has criticized Vice President Mike Pence, accusing him of lying about Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani's involvement in the 9/11 attacks.

Kerr said on Twitter on Friday, the day when Soleimani was targeted in a US airstrike, that the US government should not be trusted when it comes to matters of war.

Former presidents Richard M. Nixon and Lyndon B. Johnson lied about Vietnam War, while President George W. Bush and his vice president Dick Cheney falsely claimed that Iraq was in possession of weapons of mass destruction before the US invaded the country, Kerr said, adding, now, Pence is telling a falsehood about Iran's and General Soleimani's involvement in the 9/11 incidents.

Kerr was referring to a tweet in which Pence claimed that Soleimani "assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks in the United States."

One thing I've learned in my lifetime is to not believe our government when it comes to matters of war. Johnson and Nixon lied about Viet Nam. Bush and Cheney lied about WMD's in Iraq. Now Pence is lying about Iran/Soleimani's supposed involvement in 9/11. https://t.co/jm3oex867A — Steve Kerr (@SteveKerr) January 3, 2020

Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq's Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), have been assassinated in US airstrikes in the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

Kerr was not the only one to criticize Pence over that baseless claim in his tweet as others joined to slam the vice president.

Pence is so desperate to cover for Trump that he's caught lying here. This tells us it's highly unlikely that there was an imminent threat posed by #Soleimani since they are now lying about what he did in past:https://t.co/cxLCvSmxt4 — (((DeanObeidallah))) (@DeanObeidallah) January 4, 2020