Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei went on to describe the U.S. presence as a source of corruption in the Middle East.
Iranian missile attacks on two Iraqi military bases housing American troops early Wednesday morning was a "slap on the face" to the U.S. but "not enough," Iran's supreme leader said.
But "such military actions are not enough," Khamenei said on Twitter shortly thereafter, suggesting further acts of revenge for the U.S. killing of top Iranian general Qasem Soleimani. The missile barrage follows three days of mourning over the U.S. assassination of Soleimani, longtime leader of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards' elite extraterritorial Quds Force and the architect behind Iran's expansion of influence and proxy networks around the Middle East. The general, who was highly revered as a hero in Iran, was killed along with colleagues and the leader of Iraqi Shiite militia Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis by drone strike at Baghdad airport early Friday morning.
Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif also took to Twitter to say that his country "took and concluded proportionate measures" against the killing of Soleimani and acted in "self defense," adding that "We do not seek escalation or war, but will defend ourselves against any aggression."
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