Iraqi terrorists threaten to reduce US airbases to rubble as WW3 fears rise – Daily Star

Iraqi terrorists have threatened to turn US airbases in Iraq to rubble in after an airstrike that killed Irans top general Qasem Soleimani.

Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia at the centre of current tensions between Washington and Tehran, made the dire warning.

Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese secretary-general of Hezbollah, said all US bases, all warships and every single soldier in the region are now a target.

He warned: The true, just retribution for those who conducted this assassination is an institution, which is the U.S. military.

We will launch a battle against those killers, those criminals.

Soleimani, tipped to be the country's future president, was killed as he was leaving Baghdad airport on Friday morning .

He was the head of Irans elite Quds Force, which has been designated by the U.S. as a terror group since 2007.

Soleimani oversaw networks of proxy forces, long been suspected of being behind actions to destabilise the Middle East.

US President Donald Trump afterwards said he ordered the assassination to "to stop a war, not to start one".

The US has since deployed 3,000 extra troops to the Middle East .

On Saturday, Trump warned the US would target 52 sites important to Iran and Iranian culture and hit them very fast and very hard if it attacked US assets.

The head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards aerospace programme, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, said: Firing a couple of missiles, hitting a base or even killing Trump is not valuable enough to compensate for martyr Soleimani's blood.

The only thing that can compensate for his blood is the complete removal of America from the region.

See the original post here:

Iraqi terrorists threaten to reduce US airbases to rubble as WW3 fears rise - Daily Star

Related Posts

Comments are closed.