Is the Iranian response to the assassination of Soleimani ended? Tehran declares its position on the next strike and the war

Iran has confirmed that it has responded proportionately to the assassination of the Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, and that it is not seeking war and escalation, but has warned that it will carry out further strikes if Washington retaliates militarily.

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said today, Wednesday, in a press statement after a cabinet meeting in Tehran, that the United States would receive more painful strikes if it resorted to escalation after the Revolutionary Guards targeted two bases that included American forces in the Iraqi provinces of Anbar and Erbil.

Zarif added that revenge on America was expelling it from the region. He described the Iranian missile response to the assassination of Soleimani in a US raid in Iraq as a blow to Washington.

The Anatolia Agency quoted the Iranian Foreign Minister as saying that his country's response ended after the bombing of the two military bases in Anbar and Erbil in Iraq.

Zarif said that the United States will have no future in the region, and that the blood of Soleimani and Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, the deputy head of the Iraqi Popular Mobilization Organization that was killed in the same raid, will cut America's feet from the region.

Earlier today, the Iranian minister posted a tweet on Twitter saying that his country did not want war, but would respond aggressively to any US attack.

He added that Tehran had taken proportional defensive steps within the framework of self-defense under the United Nations Charter.

For his part, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabei said that if the Americans consider responding to targeting the two military bases in Iraq, they will receive a more painful response.

Rabiei said during a press conference after the cabinet meeting in Tehran that expelling the Americans would help to enhance security in the region, stressing that his country will not target the countries of the region that will not be a springboard for attacks against Iran.

He also considered that his country through a missile strike against the American forces in Iraq would be retaliated against the government of US President Donald Trump, and that there would be no safe place for him.

The Iranian spokesman had previously said that his country does not want war, but will face any aggression against it with an overwhelming response.

On the nuclear deal, Rabiei said that Tehran was keen on it, adding that it could be continued without the participation of the United States.

Next blow
For his part, Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami said that Tehran's response to the US retaliation would be proportional to what it would do.

In statements to him in Tehran, he added that the next Iranian strike depends on Washington's response to the first strike.

He continued that the American forces will not be safe in the region, pointing out that the Iranian people are demanding the expulsion of the American forces in the region.

Prior to that, Husamuddin Ashna, adviser to President Hassan Rouhani, warned that any US response to the Iranian missile strike could lead to an all-out war in the Middle East.

As for the chief of staff of the armed forces, Major General Muhammad Bagheri, he said that the response to what he described as a new American aggression would be stronger, more difficult and broader.

He added that the Revolutionary Guards operation showed part of the armed forces force to respond to the assassination of Soleimani, considering that it was time for Washington to take another method in dealing with Iran and to withdraw its forces from the region.