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January 05, 2020American President Donald Trump replies on Twitter to the Iranian Pasdarans and warns that the US has to hit 52 targets of Iran, as many as the hostages who were seized from the US embassy in Tehran. "Iran is talking very boldly about hitting some US assets like revenge." "May this serve as a warning that if Iran hits any American or American goods, we are targeting 52 Iranian sites (representing 52 American hostages taken from Iran many years ago), some at a very high and important level for 'Iran and Iranian culture, and those goals and Iran itself, will be hit very quickly and very hard. The United States no longer wants threats! "Wrote Trump.Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime, including recently ....
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2020.... hundreds of Iranian protesters. He was already attacking our Embassy, and preparing for additional hits in other locations. Iran has been nothing but problems for many years. Let this serve as a WARNING that if Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets, we have .....
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 4, 2020.... 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, 2020Also on twitter, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo criticized the Iraqi pro-Iranian group Hezbollah Brigades for calling on Iraqi security forces to stop protecting US sites in Iraq. The Hezbollah Brigades have promised to avenge the killing in Baghdad of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in an American airstrike and have called on Iraqi security forces to move "at least 1,000 meters" from the sites where the Americans are located today at 17 : 00 local time.
Deciding on the killing of Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Donald Trump chose the extreme option among the many presented by military leaders, while intelligence was still being evaluated on new threats. The New York Times reported: on December 28, Trump, after the attack in which an American contractor died, had rejected the idea of killing Soleimani, opting for an air raid on the pro-Iranian militia posts in Iraq and Syria. But after the siege of the US embassy in Baghdad, the tycoon, furious after seeing the images on TV, decided for the extreme solution, leaving the leaders of the Pentagon amazed