How Serious Are the Iranian Regime’s Retaliation Threats Against the U.S.?By Armin Baldwin & By Atousa Pilger, 6 January 2020
After the elimination of Iranian regime’s Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani by a U.S. air strike early Friday January 3, 2019, the Iranian regime’s officials and press agencies repeat all the time that they will take “harsh retaliation”. But how serious are these threats for the U.S.?
Let’s take a look at regime officials’ remarks in the Iranian press in recent days but also some of regime’s lobbyists and apologists.
The Commander of the Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) Hosein Salami said, “Without a doubt, the IRGC will certainly take a painful and regretful revenge on the U.S. but its timing and scale will remain concealed. Our strategic retaliation will end U.S. presence in the region.”
Mohsen Rezaee, Secretary of the Expediency Discernment Council and former head of the IRGC, said, “Until a decisive answer to Trump, it is necessary to take the fifth step to reduce our nuclear commitments.”
Rezaee continued “if the Americans answer our military measures we will flatten and burn Tel Aviv and Haifa.”
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These are clear calls of the Iranian regime to justify more terrorism in the middle east. The regime tries to activate its paramilitary proxies in the region. Despite the regime’s threats, it is not going to react very fast since it is afraid of more losses in the middle east. It simply tries to take measures like “taking the fifth step to reduce our nuclear commitments.” But it will also be a practical departure from the Iran nuclear deal, known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), which will bring the regime into more international isolation.
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