In a speech different from the language of previous threats to retaliate militarily against the blood of the former commander of the Quds Force in the Revolutionary Guard, General Qassem Soleimani, the Iranian authorities defined the nature of the strategies followed in the coming period to take revenge against the United States.
The Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Ali Khamenei, described the missile strikes last year on the “Ain al-Assad” base that houses the US forces in Iraq, as a “first hard blow” to Washington, and said that the strongest slap would be “the programmatic victory over the hegemony of arrogance,” and the expulsion of the forces. American from the area.
In a speech on the eve of the first anniversary of Soleimani's assassination, Khamenei stressed that retaliation against the killers would certainly extend to "those who command and direct" the assassination of Soleimani at "any available opportunity."
The Iranian guide’s words indicate that “Tehran’s revenge will not be limited to military action,” according to the political assistant to the Commander-in-Chief of the Revolutionary Guard, Brigadier General Yadallah Jawani, who made clear in press statements that the retaliation process would include several military, security and diplomatic measures to expel American forces from the region.
In the context, the former head of the National Security and Foreign Policy Committee of the Iranian Parliament, Alaeddin Boroujerdi, commented - in an interview with Al-Jazeera Net - that his country is introducing the concept of "programmatic victory", that "the introduction of soft power in the face of US measures hostile to the Islamic revolution does not mean abandoning the option of hard power." Rather, what is meant is to diversify the means of confrontation and work to prepare regional public opinion to expel US forces from the Middle East. "
Arrows of revenge
For his part, Advisor to the Presidency of the Iranian Parliament, Mansour Haqiqatpour, believes that the Iranian Supreme Leader emphasized the concept of "seizing available opportunities" for revenge instead of the concept of "right time", which is fraught with political observations.
Haiketpour indicated that Khamenei wanted to free the file of revenge for the assassination of Qassem Soleimani from regional and global accounts and developments, as he instructed to implement it at the first possible opportunity without delay.
He explained that the concerned authorities in his country had taken upon themselves the task of responding to the assassination of Soleimani, and began working to achieve the integrated plan through soft and hard power.
The incoming US administration cannot disavow the Trump administration’s crime of assassinating Soleimani - and the talk here is to the advisor to the Iranian parliament’s presidency - and that the Iranian response will be directed at the American system as well as the prosecution of those involved in the crime, threatening US President Donald Trump that he will not find a safe place after leaving the White House. , As he says.
Meanwhile, the Iranian diplomat and spokesman for the People's Committee to commemorate the assassination of Soleimani, Hossein Amir Abd al-Lahyan, revealed that the number of the main defendants in the case had risen to 48, among those who ordered and carried out the crime, as described.
At a press conference in the capital, Tehran, Abdollahian said, "With regard to the judicial procedures to follow up the case of the assassination of General Soleimani, it should be said that the verdict will be issued soon," stressing that the Iranian judiciary is in contact with 6 countries to follow up the assassination file and prosecute those involved in it, and that revenge is on the agenda Tehran.