Ex-diplomat: White House plan assassination to distract from Trump’s impeachment
“The timing of the assassination of the Quds Force commander was due to the proximity to the time of the impeachment of the US president,” a senior political analyst told ILNA.
Sabah Zanganeh, a former Iranian diplomat in an interview with ILNA said “Trump's stupid advisers have tried to solve a domestic problem but it could affect the entire region and the world.”
He confirmed “This assassination was not an overnight decision,” adding that US officials have repeatedly stated their desire to assassinate the Leader of IRGC's elite Quds force Qassem Suleimani.
The former Iranian diplomat said "The US seems to want to occupy Iraq again.”
“The assassination of martyred General Qassem Soleimani will be followed by a strategic revenge which will definitely put an end to the US presence in the region.”
It comes after Iraq’s parliament voted in favour of a resolution calling for an end to foreign military presence in the country. The draft bill also says that foreign forces should be banned from using Iraqi land, airspace or water for any reason.
In an interview with CNN, Hossein Dehghan, a military adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, said that Iran’s response will be military “against military sites.”
The comments from Dehghan come following threats from President Donald Trump that the U.S. military was targeting 52 Iranian sites, to include cultural locations, if Iran retaliated against the U.S. for the martyr of Soleimani.
Iran's world-renowned General Soleimani, who had a major role in annihilating the Daesh (ISIS) terror group in Syria and Iraq, was assassinated in Baghdad. US President Donald Trump later on Friday claimed the responsibility of the terrorist move and said that he has directly ordered the US army to assassinate the extremely popular general.
Tehran has threatened severe retaliation in response, which was met with a warning from Trump last night who took to Twitter to claim that he would hit 52 Iranian sites, ‘very hard and very fast’.
END