After the US President promised to attack 52 Iranian sites and heritage centers in response to any retaliation for the killing of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian regime has issued strong threats against the United States of America.
Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, was killed in a United States strike in Iraq on Friday morning by orders of Trump. His body was returned to Iran early Sunday to chants of ‘Death to America’ ahead of a three-day funeral.
Iranian officials and Qassem Soleimani’s supporters have vowed vengeance for his death and raised the blood-red ‘flags of revenge’ over the minarets at the revered Jamkaran Mosque on Saturday.
Iran then threatened to hit 35 American targets in the Middle East region, including US ships, following Soleimani’s death. In response, Trump threatened to obliterate 52 Iranian cultural sites and places if the US is attacked.
During a parliamentary session on Sunday, Iranian MP Abolfazl Abutorabi threatened to attack the White House, stating, ‘We can attack the White House itself, we can respond to them on American soil. We have the power, and God willing we will respond at an appropriate time.’
Abutorabi continued to declare that ‘this is a declaration of war, which means if you hesitate you lose. When someone declares war, do you want to respond to the bullets with flowers? They will shoot you in the head.’
Before the parliamentary session commenced, Iranian lawmakers chanted ‘Death to America’ in protest against the killing of Soleimani.
Also on Sunday, Information and Telecommunications Minister Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi called Trump a ‘terrorist’ wearing a ‘suit’ and tweeted, ‘Like ISIS, Like Hitler, Like Genghis! They all hate cultures. Trump is a terrorist in a suit. He will learn history very soon that NOBODY can defeat ”the Great Iranian Nation & Culture”.’
The US military confirmed two rocket attacks near American facilities in Iraq on Saturday, stating that no US personnel or allies were injured.