The Revolutionary Guards do not forget about the attack on the general and announce that it is adding to its arsenal a missile capable of “killing a thousand Americans.”
Iran’s Revolutionary Guards have again threatened to “kill” former President Donald Trump for the US attack that killed General Qasem Soleimani in January 2020. The warning, issued at dawn yesterday in a television interview by the head of the army’s aerospace force, Amir Ali Hajizadeh, shows that the regime does not forget. The day after his death, Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi vowed to “avenge the murder” of Soleimani. And the ultimatum remains latent, despite Trump leaving the White House in January 2021 and now preparing his return to the election race while playing golf at his Florida resort.
Amir Ali Hajizadeh even assured that his country’s military arsenal has just added a new hypersonic missile that could kill “a thousand Americans”, but reiterated that the main interest of his militants is “to kill Trump”. The announcement that Tehran possesses an “undetectable” long-range missile capable of traveling at 10,000 miles per hour is worrying news for Western countries. Two years ago, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), an authority on the planet’s military balances, already warned that Iran possessed the “largest and most diverse arsenal of missiles in the entire Middle East” from low and medium range. Some means added the hundreds of kamikaze drones stored in underground bases, and that Russia has proved deadly effective in the war in Ukraine over the past year.
According to the head of the aerospace force, the new missile will not activate until 300 kilometers away from its target, making it virtually “undetectable” by anti-missile shields. Tehran believes that with this weapon it destroys “the air domain” of the United States and can hit its ships “up to 2,000 kilometers away”. “If we wanted to kill a thousand Americans tonight, we could have killed them, but we are looking for Trump,” he stressed.
The death of Qasem Soleimani made a special impression in Iran and in the countries around it. He was a well-known military and political figure and led the Quds Force, the international arm of the Revolutionary Guards. His foreign policy leadership played a key role in shaping Iran’s representation in the Middle East. As a soldier, the Pentagon accused him of being behind numerous attacks on his bases in the region. The paramilitary branch is also related to Hezbollah in Lebanon and the Shiite militias in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The attack came a few days after a US contractor was killed in a bombing raid on a military base in Afghanistan. The car in which the general was driving, accompanied by the Vice President of the Popular Crowd Iraqi Shiite militias, Abu Mahdi al Muhandis, was hit in an airstrike on the road leading to Baghdad airport. Then-President Donald Trump justified the attack on Soleimani because he “intended to blow up the US embassy in Iraq”. He came to describe him as a “monster.” We are acting in legitimate defense,” he stressed. A week later, Tehran responded by firing several missiles at a US military airfield in Iraq. It caused no casualties.
“We hope to kill Trump, Mike Pompeo (former US Secretary of State) and Kenneth McEnzie (chief of the Army Central Command in the Middle East in 2020), as well as the military officials who ordered Soleimani to be killed. to kill.” said General Amirali Hajizadeh in his startling statement in the wee hours of yesterday, when there is scarcely any memory in the West of the regime’s old threat. Trump had not responded to the harassment of the Iranian general last night.
The demonstrations by the air force command came just hours after Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir Abdollahian ended an official trip to Iraq to strengthen security cooperation between the two countries. The head of diplomacy met with the head of Iraq’s Supreme Judicial Council, Faiq Zidane, to whom he conveyed Tehran’s interest in relaunching investigations into the murders of Qassem Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al Muhandis. Zidane assured that his department has taken major steps to bring charges against the organizers and perpetrators of the airstrike, in addition to guaranteeing Iraq’s commitment to bench them.
Source: La Verdad
I am an experienced and passionate journalist with a strong track record in news website reporting. I specialize in technology coverage, breaking stories on the latest developments and trends from around the world. Working for Today Times Live has given me the opportunity to write thought-provoking pieces that have caught the attention of many readers.
