President Trump says the Iranian military commander killed by a U.S. airstrike in Iraq was “plotting to kill” many Americans. Trump also said Gen. Qassem Soleimani was responsible for killing and wounding thousands of Americans and others.
President Donald Trump says the Iranian military commander who was killed by a U.S. airstrike in Iraq was “plotting to kill” many Americans.
The U.S. says that the airstrike was carried out to disrupt an “imminent” attack orchestrated by Soleimani. Iran’s supreme leader has vowed “harsh retaliation.”U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo is asserting that the U.S. killed Iran’s top military commander to disrupt an “imminent” attack orchestrated by him.
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said in a TV interview that there were no legal grounds for the strike. And U.N. human rights expert, Agnes Callamard, tweeted that the airstrike in Baghdad appeared to be “far more retaliatory for past acts than anticipatory for imminent self-defense.”
Before dawn in Washington on Friday, the State Department said Pompeo had spoken with the foreign ministers of Britain and Germany as well as China’s state councilor after Gen. Qassem Soleimani was killed near the airport in Baghdad. Calls for restraint are growing after a U.S. airstrike killed Iran’s top military commander in Baghdad and Iran’s supreme leader vowed a “harsh retaliation.”
In a Twitter post Friday, Bolton adds that “long in the making, this was a decisive blow against Iran’s malign Quds Force activities worldwide. Hope this is the first step to regime change in Tehran.” Germany says the situation in the Middle East has reached “a dangerous escalation point” and that conflicts in the region can only be resolved diplomatically.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei later on Friday appointed Soleimani’s deputy, Maj. Gen. Esmail Ghaani as the new commander of the Revoluionary Guard’s Quds Force. And “Iran may accelerate making a nuclear weapon now, even if it didn’t plan on doing it before,” Kosachev said.China says it is “highly concerned” and calls for all sides, especially the United States, to exercise “calm and restraint” after a U.S. airstrike killed Iran’s top general in Baghdad.
Hassan al-Kaabi says it is time to put an end to “U.S. recklessness and arrogance,” adding that Saturday’s session will be dedicated to taking “decisive decisions that put an end to U.S. presence inside Iraq.” The head of Iran’s elite Quds Force topped Israel’s list of threats, accused of masterminding a network of enemies that included the Hezbollah militant group in Lebanon. Israel has struck Quds Force targets in Syria on several occasions.
The State Department adds that “due to Iranian-backed militia attacks at the U.S. Embassy compound, all consular operations are suspended. U.S. citizens should not approach the Embassy.” He called the attack “a dangerous escalation” that is set to ignite a destructive war in Iraq and the region. He added it is also an “obvious violation of the conditions of U.S. troop presence in Iraq, which is limited to training Iraqi forces” to fight IS militants.The head of Iran’s parliamentary committee on national security and foreign policy has threatened U.S. forces in the Middle East during an interview on state television.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S. And Iran’s cabinet spokesman, Ali Rabiei, said in a tweet that Iran’s severe response won’t be far away.Syria has strongly condemned what it calls “treacherous American criminal aggression” that killed Iran’s top general and others, warning that it constitutes a “dangerous escalation” in the region.
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