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13 Revenge Scenarios: Iran Threatens Americans with 'Historical Nightmare'

Secretary of Iran's Supreme National Security Council Admiral Ali Shamkhani said that Tehran has 13 scenarios of revenge for the killing of the commander of the elite Quds Force of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Qasem Soleimani, reports "Gordon".

Фото: Depositphotos

Shamkhani said he would not disclose information to the media, but promised the Iranian people that retaliation for the killing of Soleimani would not be limited to one operation. He threatened that even the weakest scenario "could become a historical nightmare for Americans."

According to the admiral, Iran knows the location of all US military bases, their numbers and equipment.

Shamkhani said Tehran was insisting that the US military leave the region "otherwise they will be destroyed."

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UN criticizes Trump for threatening Iranian cultural monuments. What are these monuments?

US President Donald Trump threatened Iranian authorities that he could attack the country's historical monuments, writes Air force. His statements were criticized not only by the Iranian authorities and the population, but also by the UN and representatives of the US Democratic Party.

On Saturday, Trump tweeted that the U.S. had earmarked 52 sites, some of which were "highly valued and important to Iran and Iranian culture." He threatened that the monuments would come under “swift and heavy attack” if Tehran tried to avenge the death of General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in a US airstrike on January 3 in Iraq.

Screenshot: Twitter / @ realDonaldTrump

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and US Secretary of Defense Mark Esper have tried to soften Trump's rhetoric somewhat, noting that the United States will act under international law.

However, Trump later repeated his threats.

“They are allowed to kill our people, they are allowed to torture and maim our people, they are allowed to set roadside bombs and blow up our people - but we are not allowed to touch their cultural objects? No, it won’t happen,” he said.

On Monday, presidential adviser Kellyanne Conway clarified that Trump was not planning to attack Iranian landmarks, but was only “asking questions.”

“There are many strategic military sites in Iran that can also be perceived as cultural sites,” she said. Conway later clarified that she did not assume that Iran was disguising military facilities as cultural ones.

Trump himself, speaking to reporters in the White House following a meeting with Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, said he would act within the law.

“You know, if this is the law, then I will obey the law. But think about it: they kill our people, they blow up our people, and after that we need to be sensitive to their cultural objects. But I’m okay with it,” he said.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper, commenting on Trump’s words, said that the American authorities “will follow the rules of military conflict.”

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Flurry of criticism

The head of UNESCO, Audrey Ozulay, recalled that Iran and the United States signed a convention on the protection of the world’s natural and cultural heritage in 1972. In addition, in 1954, both countries joined the Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property during Armed Conflict.

However, in the fall of 2017, Trump announced the U.S. withdrawal from UNESCO, accusing the organization of being anti-Israeli.

Democratic US Senators Elizabeth Warren and Chris Murphy said Trump was “threatening to commit war crimes.” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also stated this in an interview with American journalists.

British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab also joined Trump's critics, saying that cultural sites are protected by international law and Britain hopes that it will be respected.

According to Sam Farzaneh, columnist for the BBC Persian Service, if the news of the assassination of General Suleymani divided the Iranians into two camps, Trump's words about the monuments reunited the nation, which has great respect for its history.

Naksh-e Jahan Square in Isfahan. Photo: Depositphotos

The main cultural sites of Iran

Iran has more than 20 monuments listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here is some of them:

  • Persepolis is an ancient Persian city, created in the 6th-5th centuries BC. BC, was the capital of the Achaemenid Empire.
  • Naqsh-e Jahan Square (also known as Imam Square) in the city of Isfahan, built in the 16th-17th centuries, is one of the largest squares in the world.
  • Golestan Palace in Tehran, built in the 1785th century and was the main center of the Qajar Iranian dynasty, which ruled from 1925 to XNUMX.
  • The city of Yazd was founded in the 3rd millennium BC. e., in the 14th century it was the capital of the Persian state of the Muzaffarids.
  • Tabriz Bazaar is a market in the city of Tabriz, one of the oldest in the Middle East and the largest indoor market in the world.

As ForumDaily wrote earlier:

  • On the night of January 3, USA rocketed at the international airport of Baghdad in Iraq, which killed the commander of the Iranian elite unit of Al-Quds of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, Major General Kassem Suleimani. The Pentagon said that the liquidation of Suleymani was carried out at the direction of US President Donald Trump. The US considers the IRGC a terrorist organization, and Suleimani is involved in attacks on the US embassy and US military bases in Iraq.
  • US threatened in Iran "Harsh revenge" for the death of General Suleymani. On January 5, Tehran announced a complete withdrawal from the agreement aimed at limiting Iran’s nuclear program in exchange for lifting sanctions from it.
  • The US president said that "the death of innocent people was Suleymani's painful passion." “We acted to stop the war. We did not take action to start a war, ”Trump said. He noted that the United States strike at 52 targets in Iranif Tehran attacks the USA.
  • The Iraqi Foreign Ministry called the assassination of Suleymani a violation of sovereignty, and the parliament on January 5 voted to withdraw foreign troops from the country. On the same day, a coalition led by the Americans suspended Operation Unshakable Determination against ISIS in Iraq.

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