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President Donald Trump on Monday promised a US response “a thousand times stronger” than any Iranian attack, according to press reports that Tehran intends to assassinate a US ambassador, AFP reports.
“Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be followed by an attack on Iran, (attack) that will be a thousand times stronger in magnitude!” Donald Trump wrote on Twitter, according to agerpres. .com.
According to the intelligence website Politico, which quotes two US officials on condition of anonymity, US intelligence services believe that the Iranian regime intends to assassinate the US ambassador to South Africa, Lana Marks, a close friend of Donald Trump. .
The threat, detected since spring, has become more precise in recent weeks, according to Politico sources, as Tehran seeks to avenge the death of its general Qassem Soleimani, killed in January in a US attack in Iraq, on the orders of the president. U.S.
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that he took this information seriously.
For its part, the Iranian Foreign Ministry said it was “false information” and “unfounded”. His spokesman called for “repetitive and sickening methods designed to create an anti-Iranian climate on the international stage.” Iran “has demonstrated its enduring adherence to the principles and customs of international diplomacy,” while the Trump administration “has acted with contempt for many accepted international norms and methods,” she said.
The president of the United States withdrew the United States in 2018 from the international agreement on Iran’s nuclear program, saying that this text is insufficient to prevent Tehran from equipping itself with an atomic bomb and limit its “damaging” influence in the Middle East.
However, despite unprecedented US sanctions, his “maximum pressure” campaign did not favor the negotiation of a new agreement, a goal set by the Republican billionaire, and tensions between the two enemy countries remain strong.
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