Qassem Soleimani
The message appears to be in reference to the recent assassination of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh in an operation widely attributed to Israel.
The Badr Organization has been responsible for the lethal attacks on U.S. embassy personnel stationed in Baghdad.
A strike with mass casualties “will definitely lead to deterrence, because the U.S. and the Israeli regime ... are by no means ready to take part in a war and a military confrontation,” writes Sadollah Zarei.
America was aware of threats against Ambassador Lana Marks since spring, but they became more specific in recent weeks, say U.S. officials.
The Iranian judiciary said that the man gave the United States and Israel information on the movements of IRGC Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani, killed in January by an American drone.
Iranian Civil Aviation Organization claims that human error was the prime factor in the January incident that killed 176.
America calls Tehran’s attempt to secure the warrant for the president and other officials over the assassination of Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani a “propaganda stunt.”
Zeinab Soleimani, who just married Hassan Nasrallah’s relative and second-in-command, vowed that her father’s assassination would bring a “Black Day” to the United States and Israel.
Iran has been “having to recalculate what we’ll do and not do” in that the regime has “seen we have the capability and the will to respond,” said Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, head of the U.S. Central Command.
The suspect, identified as Mahmoud Mousavi Majd, is accused of relaying to Israel and the U.S. information regarding slain IRGC commander Qassem Soleimani.
Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Calif.) accused U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo of “trivializing” the injuries suffered by more than 100 U.S. service members in Iran’s strike on the Ain Al-Asad air base in retaliation for the U.S. killing of Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani.
When asked if he would have ordered the strike on Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani, former South Bend, Ind., Mayor Pete Buttigieg said “it depends on the circumstances. It depends if there was an alternative, and it depends on what the different effects would be.”
