Iran condemned Donald Trump after he threatened to strike 52 Iranian sites if Tehran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in retaliation for the killing of military commander Qassem Soleimani
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei promised on Friday that Iran would seek harsh revenge for his death.
“The intelligence assessment made clear that no action - allowing Soleimani to continue his plotting and his planning, his terror campaign - created more risk than taking the action that we took last week,” he said on ABC’s “This Week” show. Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, leader of Lebanon’s powerful, Iran-allied Hezbollah movement, said the U.S. military in the Middle East would pay the price for Soleimani’S death and U.S. soldiers and officers would return home in coffins.Heightened fears of war drove Gulf stocks sharply lower on Sunday.Trump tweeted on Saturday that Iran “is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets”.
Iran summoned the Swiss envoy representing U.S. interests in Tehran on Sunday to protest at “Trump’s hostile remarks”, according to Iranian state television. It was Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the deal in 2018 and reimposition of sanctions on Iran that touched off a new spiral of tensions after a brief thaw following the accord.
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