U.S. troops suspect that Iran may attempt to take revenge on President Donald Trump for the death of Quds Force General Qassem Soleimani on the anniversary of the airstrike that killed Soleimani. This week, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani sent a cryptic warning to Trump, gloating about Trump’s loss in the 2020 election and warning that the American president’s life “will end” in “a few days.”
In a speech during a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, Rouhani warned, “As I said after the martyrdom of Martyr Soleimani, I emphasise again that if you cut off Martyr Soleimani’s hand, we will cut off your leg from the region and we will continue the resistance until that day.”
“One of the effects of this stupid and disgraceful act was that Trumpism ended and in a few days, the life of this criminal will end and he will go to the dustbin of history, and we are very happy about this and we believe that the period after Trump will be a better condition for regional and global stability,” the Iranian president added, according to an Iranian government official English translation of the remarks.
While it is possible Rouhani meant that Trump’s political life will end, the official Iranian translation suggests the president was referring to Trump’s physical life.
Rouhani’s remarks came just as Iranian officials had pre-emptively blamed Trump for a confrontation that had yet to occur. Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif accused President Donald Trump of attempting to fabricate a pretext to attack Iran before incoming President Joe Biden replaces him. Such an accusation seems rather suspicious.
“Instead of fighting Covid in US, [Trump] & cohorts waste billions to fly B52s & send armadas to OUR region. Intelligence from Iraq indicate plot to FABRICATE pretext for war,” Zarif claimed on Twitter Thursday.
The U.S. military did indeed fly two nuclear-capable B-52 bombers to the Middle East in a message of deterrence to Iran on Wednesday, but the bombers have since left the region, the Associated Press reported. The Pentagon announced on Thursday that the Nimitz aircraft carrier, which had been stationed off the coast of Somalia, would be heading toward its homeport on the U.S. West Coast.
A U.S. official told the AP that U.S. troops in Iraq are worried about what Iranian-backed militias might do in the lead-up to the anniversary of Soleimani’s assassination on January 3, 2020. Iran is planning events to mark the anniversary.
While Trump did blame Iran for rockets fired at the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad on the Sunday before Christmas, warning that the U.S. would strike back if Iran or its proxies killed any American troops, the removal of the B-52 bombers and the aircraft carrier suggests the U.S. does not have a plan to strike Iran, unless the Islamic Republic provides provocation.
Trump Sends Iran a Powerful Warning After Latest Strike on U.S. Embassy
Iran-backed militias besieged the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad late last year, sparking a series of events that culminated in the Soleimani assassination. Soleimani led Iran’s terrorism efforts in the Middle East and has been responsible for the deaths of hundreds of American soldiers. His death arguably cleared the way for Trump’s historic deals between Israel and Arab states like the United Arab Emirates.
After the strike, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei vowed “severe revenge,” but the regime’s efforts have failed. Iran fired missiles at U.S. assets, but the country also shot down a Ukrainian plane, killing its 176 passengers (82 Iranians, 63 Canadians, 11 Ukrainians, 10 Swedes, 7 Afghans, and 3 British citizens), sparking protests in the streets of Tehran. Iran petitioned INTERPOL to demand an arrest warrant for Trump over Soleimani’s death, but INTERPOL refused. An Iranian issued an $80 million bounty on Trump’s head, to no avail as yet.
U.S. intelligence reports have suggested that Iran is planning to assassinate U.S. Ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks, and in September, a former general of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps warned that the IRGC planned to assassinate Trump.
While Iran’s efforts have failed so far, the Islamic Republic may grow increasingly dangerous in its desperation. Before Soleimani’s death and the subsequent protests, Iran faced protests last November after the country reduced fuel subsidies by 50 percent and instituted rationing, in part due to pressure from the Trump administration after America withdrew from the Iran deal.
Then the coronavirus pandemic came, just before parliamentary elections. Satellite images from space showing mass graves appear to have confirmed the opposition’s claims that Tehran has vastly under-reported the death count from the coronavirus pandemic. Iran’s opposition party is also mobilizing. It hosted a virtual global summit in July.
Unfortunately, it seems Biden plans to return to Obama-style appeasement with Iran, risking Trump’s incredible progress in the Middle East.
If Iran wants to strike the U.S. in retaliation for Trump ordering Soleimani’s death, it had better strike soon — and pre-emptively blaming Trump seems like an attempt to lay down diplomatic cover for an attack. Rouhani’s cryptic warning only makes Zarif’s statements seem even more suspicious.
Tyler O’Neil is the author of Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Follow him on Twitter at @Tyler2ONeil.
OK. I’m ready. Let’s turn Iran into a sheet of glass.
Yes,Down with Iran!!!!
100,000 square miles of “green glass.”
I’ll bet you anything, If You would even try to kill President Trump, All anybody would find in Iran would be a glass parking lot and maybe your turbon blowing across the new parking lot~ Wanna Bet??!!! You are a country of radical losers ~~
Honest, though I agree, I think you might be wrong. That communist who’ll probably be our next president (for life) will probably invite the president of Iran to the White House, put him in the Lincoln bedroom and give him the medal of freedom. If you think I’m wrong, look back at when Obama committed TREASON by giving Iran millions of dollars in unmarked currency, in an unmarked aircraft that landed in an obscure airfield in Iran in the middle of the night. Iran is a sworn enemy of our country and what Obama did is known as giving aid and comfort to the enemy. A better way to describe what he did is one word. TREASON! Obama should have been executed by now or should be serving a life sentence in prison. Biden will probably do the same as Obama or perhaps even more to help an enemy of the U.S.
Well, since Biden will never be President, that’s not something we’ll need to worry about. Biden’s future involves a lengthy sentence in Prison for Treason against the United States of America. The entire Biden Family Criminal Enterprise have stolen billions from the Ukraine and others and they want their money back now. Their Evidence has been sent to the White House and it shows that Joe Biden himself was the master maker. I can’t wait to see him and his family indicted for crimes against America. It’s time that these Political criminals to be served with arrest warrants, tried, sentenced to Life Sentences. That will be a day to celebrate.
obamas skin color and the media prevents him from being touched.
Big talk from Little Iran, better speak with the Ayatollah first to make sure he is in a cave where the drones won’t get him and you Monsieur camel jockey.
time to turn Iran into a parking lot……
I think it’s way past time to nuke this nest of muslim maggots into glass
Why use our nuclear forces we have the weapons of non nuclear means to crush iran we have stuff in our arsenal that have almost as much destructive force than some nukes. In case you ask, we have stuff like the hitts( high intensity thermobaric explosive system) yeah that will turn the surrounding air into a plasma cloud and will vaporize anything within a kilometer of the blast. Then there is the tiny little M.O.A.B. (the mother of all bombs) that thing weighs in at around 25,000 pounds, yeah that will do massive damage, drop it on the capital building at it will be goneall the way down to the fourth sub basement level. Yeah we have no need to use our nuclear forces as of yet especially when we have plenty of other fun stuff we can use.
This could ean that Trump will no longer be president, or, Mar a Largo is going to be hit by off shore missles.
It’s way past time to nuke this cesspool of muslim maggots into glass
Why use nuclear forces there are lots of other fun things we can before things get to that point. Why poison the whole planet over one insolent little country.
We (worldwide) set off 2350 nuclear bombs as test, with only two having been deployed to targets. Did it poison the whole planet?
Blah Blah Blah dune coon! You pussy terrorist phuck, your mama eats pork, and your daddy’s a goat!! Mullah that pork boy!
Welcome to Iran 🇮🇷 home to all your GLASS needs 🤬
You have to remember that Iran will now have representation in the White House. Joe Biden who is nothing but a proxy for Barrack Obama. He will undo all the progress Trump accomplished in the last 4 years. It will be more red lines in the sand with Biden, Harris and Obama.
Trump’s last and best move for American safety: 1. B-52 carpet bombing of ALL Iranian political strongholds. 2. Triple pentrator bombs ALL nuclear “reasearch” facilities 3. Spec Ops go in and pick off ANY big wheel survivors.
4. Brings ‘real’ peace to Middle East and let’s Iranian people restart freedom.
Iran’s national anthem is death to America, we have to always remember that, it’s a terrorist country that is up to no good at all times, wants to Obliviate Israel, whether he still president or after he’s not president you try to kill one of our presidents in our country and that should be the end of Iran
As a former special forces sniper my dock got hard with each of the 157 Iranian terrorist towel heads that I blew off! Lock & Load the next Civil War is about to begin!
Amen brother,get ready Socialists/Democrats.
This Iranian madman is plain stupid.The Pres is protected by God with big holy angels .Donald J Trump is the President of the USA for four more years
From the above photos, I’d say the mullah wears his turban like the President wears his hair. Is it hair envy…or is it Memorex? Looks like Iran would like its A kicked back to the stone-age.
The fact that Iran is so pleased with the usurpation of Democracy by Democrats in the 2020 elections speaks volumes about who in D.C. is trustworthy and who is conspiring to implant a socialist form of government where Democracy once reigned. I find it most disconcerting that our youth are so ignorant as to want this change. It is criminal that many of these same young people have degrees from institutes of higher learning and know nothing of life, liberty, and justice! They want fewer arrests of criminals, they want our prisons emptied, they deem the Constitution as antiquated (except for their right to speak) and in need of change, and they want to rewrite history to reflect the vision liberal educators see as what our history should have been!
If you think Clinton and Obama were radical, you ain’t seen nothing yet! If you hate Trump for trying to stabilize our economy and solidify our place in World Commerce, just wait until Biden gets the reins and shows you how stupid he (Biden) is! Liberals do not want our citizens to reflect on how feverishly President Trump worked to keep large corporations from moving their facilities to other countries. When Democrats vote for higher corporate taxes and President Biden signs these foolish bills into law, thousands of U.S. workers will lose everything they fought and worked so hard to achieve because the main employers in many towns will close up and move!
God Bless President Trump.
The Greatest President America Has “Ever” Had.
I will vote for him “Anytime” he runs for office.
Sooner or later the US and Israel will have to go in Iran and make sure Iran never gets a nuclear bomb, so this looks like the right time to do it.