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The Pentagon confirmed at the time that Trump had ordered an attack on the Iranian general, and days later, Iran responded by targeting a missile at Ain al-Assad’s base in western Iraq, where US soldiers are present.
The United States of America believes that the region without Qassem Soleimani has improved, as Tehran has lost its lead in Syria, Iraq, Yemen and Lebanon, and thus the Iranian momentum following Soleimani’s assassination has diminished considerably.
A few days ago, the US news site Politico, citing two unidentified local officials, reported that Tehran was planning to assassinate Marx, who is close to Trump, before the November 3 US presidential election.
Tehran categorically denied what was expressed in the report and described it as a “false” statement by its Foreign Ministry spokesman, Saeed Khatibzadeh, who stressed at the same time that his country “will neither forgive nor forget” the assassination of Soleimani by Washington.
In the wake of Trump’s warnings, Iranian government spokesman Ali Rabiei hoped that US officials would not make “a new strategic mistake. Certainly, if they made any strategic mistake, they would witness the decisive Iranian response.”
Relations between Washington and Tehran have been strained since the victory of the Islamic Revolution in 1979 and were cut off completely a year later.
Tensions escalated with Trump’s decision to unilaterally withdraw in May 2018 from the agreement signed between Tehran and the major powers on Iran’s nuclear program in 2015.
