Mourners Pack Tehran as World Girds for Retaliation
January 6, 2020
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as posted by the channelMourners packed the streets of Tehran Monday as the world braced for Iran’s response to the U.S. killing in Baghdad of Qassem Soleimani, who ran Iran’s foreign military operations and expanded its influence across the Middle East. Iraq’s parliament reacted by asking the government to work to expel U.S. troops from Iraqi soil, potentially ending a chapter that began with the 2003 invasion. The vote prompted a threat of sanctions from Donald Trump against Iraq, an ally in the fight against Islamic State.
Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards’ air forces, told state TV that the price of the Soleimani’s assassination would be the end of America’s military presence in the region.
“Soleimani will not be avenged with just four missiles or the destruction of a base, not even with killing Trump, they aren’t anywhere near worthy of the blood of this martyr,” he said. “The only thing that can repay the blood of the martyr Soleimani is the complete removal of the U.S. from the region.”
The comments echoed fiery warnings from the head of Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah militia, Hassan Nasrallah, who said Sunday Trump would realize he had lost the Middle East when the bodies of American personnel begin to return home in coffins.
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