Washington is urging U.S. citizens to leave Iraq “immediately' as Iran vows “harsh retaliation” after a U.S. airstrike killed the country's top military commander in Baghdad. President Rouhani calls the killing a heinous crime.
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The state-run IRNA news agency also published a Rouhani statement saying the U.S. violated all human rights and international law.A State Department statement on Friday cites “heightened tensions in Iraq and the region.” Iran has vowed “harsh retaliation” after a U.S. airstrike killed Iran’s top military commander in Baghdad.
Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said Friday the men killed were “major symbols in achieving victory against” Islamic State group militants. He called the attack that killed Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis an “aggression against Iraq.” Hard-line lawmaker and cleric Mojtaba Zolnouri made the threat Friday after a U.S. airstrike near Baghdad killed Iran’s top general, Qassem Soleimani.
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has warned that a “harsh retaliation is waiting” for the U.S. And Iran’s cabinet spokesman, Ali Rabiei, said in a tweet that Iran’s severe response won’t be far away.Syria has strongly condemned what it calls “treacherous American criminal aggression” that killed Iran’s top general and others, warning that it constitutes a “dangerous escalation” in the region.
The statement says the attack will only strengthen the resolve to continue down the path set “by the martyred leaders of the resistance against American interference in the affairs of the countries of the region.”Iran’s foreign minister says the U.S. airstrike near Baghdad’s airport that killed Iran’s top general “without any doubt is an act of state terrorism.”“Perhaps America’s action was a response to the pain that this great man had inflicted on them,” Zarif said of Gen.
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