Mohsen Rezaee, a member of a council that advises Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and a retired major general in the Iran Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), also sent out a tweet on Thursday night vowing swift retaliation to the assassination.
“Martyr [#Qasem Soleimani] … joined his martyred brothers, but we will take vigorous revenge on America,” he said.
A number of US airstrikes near Baghdad’s International Airport earlier on Thursday left Soleimani and several Iraqi militia leaders dead, with two other Iraqi commanders reported arrested by US Marines. The Pentagon later confirmed the strikes, stating they were “aimed at deterring future Iranian attack plans.”
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Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said people want the US forces to get out of the region...
ReplyDeleteIn a post on his Twitter account on Thursday, Zarif highlighted parts of his recent interview with CNN, made on the sidelines of the Tehran Dialogue Forum 2020, before Iran’s missile attack on US targets in Iraq in retaliation for the American assassination of top commander Lt. General Qassem Soleimani.
In his message, the Iranian foreign minister said US President Donald Trump has been fed with “disinformation”.
"Beautiful military equipment do not rule the world: people do,” Zarif underlined.
“And people of our region want US out,” the foreign minister underlined.
In a speech on Wednesday morning, Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the US “received a slap in the face” after the IRGC missile attack, stressing that the presence of American forces in the region, which he said only causes corruption, must end.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has also said the main retaliation against the US for the assassination of Lt. General Soleimani is that American forces must be expelled from the region forever.
Three major Japanese banks have ordered their employees in Iran to leave the country for security reasons, NHK television reported on Thursday.
ReplyDeleteThe order comes amid growing tensions between Washington and Tehran, following the killing of Iran's top general in a US drone strike in Iraq.
According to NHK, the three largest banks in Japan – MUFG Bank, Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC), and Mizuho Bank – have ordered staff stationed in Tehran, to leave the Islamic Republic by January 9. The banks have also canceled all business trips to Iran.
El comandante de la división aeroespacial de los Cuerpos de la Guardia Revolucionaria Islámica de Irán (CGRI), el general Amir Ali Hajizadeh, ha asegurado este jueves que el objetivo del ataque contra la base aérea estadounidense Al Asad, en Irak, no era matar soldados, sino destruir sus equipos.
ReplyDelete"No buscamos matar a nadie, aunque es probable que decenas de soldados estadounidenses hayan muerto o resultado heridos", dijo Hajizadeh. Según el militar, si Teherán hubiese tenido la intención de provocar bajas humanas, podría haber diseñado la operación de tal manera para que se cobrara la vida de hasta 500 efectivos en un primer ataque, y entre 4.000 y 5.000 en la segunda y tercera fase en caso de que Washington hubiera respondido.