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Once again, the tone of Iranian threats is rising in response to the assassination of former Iranian “Quds Force” commander General Qassem Soleimani on the cusp of the first anniversary of his assassination by Washington in an airstrike in Baghdad. On January 3, 2020, as Iran’s Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei confirmed today, Wednesday, in a meeting with the Soleimani family and members of the Commemoration Committee, the “biggest blow” to the assassination is “the programmatic control of the hegemony empty of arrogance “and” to expel America from the region. ”
And Khamenei considered, according to his office’s media website, that the “millionth funeral” of the bodies of Soleimani and the deputy head of the Iraqi “Popular Mobilization”, Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis, “was the first severe blow”, noting that the Iranian missile strike 5 days after the incident at the US Ain Al-Assad base in Anbar, “was another slap in the face.”
He stressed at the same time that “those who commanded the assassination of Major General Soleimani and the assassins must pay the price, and this revenge is inevitable whenever possible.”
Khamenei reviewed Soleimani’s biography, praised his role and his policies, and said that “the president of the United States (Donald Trump) has said that we spent 7 billion dollars in the region, but we got nothing,” referring to the visit of Trump to Iraq in December 2018, saying that he “was forced to visit a military base in the dead of night for several hours,” referring to Ain Al-Assad’s base.
And he considered that “the whole world admits that the United States has not achieved its objectives in Syria, especially in Iraq”, saying that “the hero of this great achievement is Major General Soleimani.”
The Iranian guide also sent messages to the Iranian interior, especially to the government, asking to strengthen Iran’s capabilities “in all fields”, saying: “Do not trust the enemy” and “preserve national unity” and “Before thinking about lifting the sanctions, think about thwarting the sanctions. ” An indirect criticism of Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who recently stated that he “will not allow some to delay the lifting of sanctions”, referring to the Iranian parliament, which is controlled by the conservatives.
He explained that “the lifting of sanctions is in the hands of the enemy, but their frustration is in our hands,” and asked to focus on frustrating them.
However, Khamenei emphasized at the same time that he did not intend not to seek the lifting of the sanctions, as he said: “I am not saying, I am not seeking to abolish the sanctions, because if the sanctions can be lifted in a correct, rational way, Iranian , Islamic and based on pride, then it should not be delayed an hour. ”
He noted that “all the sanctions should have been lifted at once, starting in 2016, but to this day the sanctions were not only lifted, but increased”, in an indirect reference to the nuclear agreement that provides for the lifting of sanctions imposed on Tehran from January. 2016, but not practically all of them were raised. Rather, some were lifted, and the President of the United States reinstated all sanctions that were lifted after his withdrawal from the agreement in 2018, and imposed additional sanctions. Today, Iran is exposed to sanctions that are described as “historic”, which are more severe than those it faced before reaching the 2015 nuclear deal.
Khamenei addressed the Iranian government and said: “You have seen what Trump’s America and Obama’s America have done to you. Hostility to Iran is not limited to Trump’s America, so it ends with his departure. America Obama also offended you and the Iranian people, “referring to the positions of the three European partner countries in the nuclear deal. That is, France, Great Britain and Germany, accusing them of “complete inaction, hypocrisy and malice.”
The Iranian supreme leader added: “I support those responsible, but this support is conditional on their commitment to the objectives of the people.”
Khamenei criticized “some controversial statements”, addressing Iranian officials and asking to resolve differences “through dialogue with some,” asking: “Isn’t he saying that we must negotiate with the world, it is not possible to dialogue with the internal component and resolve differences?
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