President Donald Trump said on the night of Saturday to Sunday that the United States would specifically strike Iran harder if Tehran's forces carried out retaliatory attacks on the assassination of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani.
"If they attack again - which I strongly advise them not to do - we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before!" ", Threatened the American president on Twitter.
“The United States has spent $ 2,000 billion on military equipment. We are the biggest and by far the best in the world! If Iran attacks an American base, or any American, we will send some of this brand new magnificent equipment to do its job… and without hesitation! ", He added in a second message.
They attacked us, & we hit back. If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before! https://t.co/qI5RfWsSCH
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2020The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment. We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World! If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way ... and without hesitation!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 5, 2020Saturday evening, before two near-simultaneous rocket hits the Baghdad green zone, where Americans live in a large enclave around the embassy, and an air base further north sheltering American soldiers, Trump had already announced that the Pentagon had selected 52 sites that could be hit "very quickly and very hard," he wrote in capital letters if the Islamic Republic attacked American personnel or sites. "Iran has only been a problem for many years," he said.
Tehran has promised to avenge the death of the powerful Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, head of the Al-Quds Force, killed Friday by an American drone strike in Baghdad. The day on Saturday was emblematic of the sudden rise in tensions in recent days: rumors circulating about a new American strike - denied - targeting the paramilitaries of Hachd al-Chaabi; monster parades in Baghdad for the start of the funeral of Soleimani and his right arm in Iraq, Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis, n ° 2 du Hachd; rocket fire from factions openly serving Iranian revenge ...
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Besides the Hezbollah Brigades, the most radical faction of Hashd, called on the Iraqi security forces to move "at least 1,000 m" from the sites where American soldiers are present from this Sunday at 5 p.m. hours (3 p.m. French time).
52 targets selected by the Pentagon in Iran
Accusing Soleimani of attacking the embassy on Tuesday and of being, at the time of his death, preparing for other assaults elsewhere, Donald Trump explained that 52 Iranian sites were in the sights of his armies, that number corresponding to the 52 Americans who had been held hostage for more than a year from the end of 1979 at the United States Embassy in Tehran.
.... targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD. The USA wants no more threats!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2020The Pentagon refused to answer questions, referring to the White House, which remains silent. Interim Homeland Security Secretary Chad Wolf released a new terrorist threat bulletin on Saturday. It says that no specific threat on American soil is known to date but that Iran is perfectly capable of carrying out cyberattacks in the United States, "with temporary disruptions to the infrastructure".
It remains to be seen what the Iraqi government can do. Historical ally of Washington and Tehran, destabilized by a popular protest movement for several months, he wants at all costs to avoid an Iran-USA war being waged on its soil. Parliament is scheduled to hold a special session on Sunday during which it could vote for the expulsion of the 5,200 US military personnel deployed to Iraq.
