Iran’s Supreme Leader Warns of Payback (Daniel 8:4)

Iran’s supreme leader warns of ‘harsh retaliation’ in wake of US strike that killed general

March 29, 20203 Min Read

Iran’s Ayatollah Ali Khamenei paid a condolence go to Friday to the widow of Qassem Soleimani — hours after the supreme leader warned of a “harsh retaliation” in opposition to the US for killing his high ­general.

The ayatollah sat subsequent to a framed {photograph} of the slain commander of the elite Quds Power, a subset of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, as he consoled the grieving lady in Tehran.

In the meantime, crowds took to the streets in the capital and different cities to protest Washington’s “crimes” hours after a drone strike took out Soleimani on the airport in Baghdad, Iraq, together with a number of others.

Chanting “Dying to America” and holding up posters of Soleimani, 62, the lots stuffed the streets of Tehran after Friday prayers.

“Soleimani’s blood spilled, the nation’s outrage in opposition to the enemy sparked!” the demonstrators chanted in footage aired by the state-run Islamic Republic Information Company.

The demonstrators, many of them aged, took half in the processions, some displaying portraits of the supreme leader.

“The axis of any evil is America. The motto of faith and the Koran is dying to America!” they yelled in unison. “Oh, leader of our revolution, condolences, condolences.”

In Kerman in southeastern Iran — the place Soleimani was born — a large procession of black-clad mourners chanted non secular slogans, in line with The Washington Submit. Elsewhere, a gaggle of males ripped holes out of a US flag earlier than setting it ablaze.

“This was a great transfer, so that the entire world would understand who the terrorist is. The entire world discovered that out,” Ali Bakhshi, an aged cleric, advised Agence France-Presse.

“The expensive leader of the revolution reply to them [the US] very intelligently and exactly. And the nation of Iran will resist,” he added.

Khamenei warned that the Islamic Republic will hit again on the US for killing Soleimani, calling him the “worldwide face of resistance” and declaring three days of public mourning. He additionally appointed Brig. Gen. Esmail Ghaani, Soleimani’s deputy, to interchange him as head of the Quds Power.

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani referred to as the killing a “heinous crime” and vowed that his nation would “take revenge.”

Iran’s Supreme Nationwide Safety Council additionally issued an announcement threatening retaliation for the strike, saying it had made “applicable choices” that would maintain Washington liable for “all of the results of this strategic mistake.”

“Extreme revenge awaits the criminals who smeared their soiled fingers with the pure blood of Gen. Soleimani,” the assertion mentioned. “These cowardly acts will increase the need of the Islamic Republic to be extra energetic in its resistance and to carry a swift defeat” to the enemy.

Dozens of green-clad members of the Guards additionally took half in a mournful procession. “I feel America has taken a giant threat and can get its response as effectively,” a Guards member who solely gave his surname as Qasemi advised AFP.

State information company IRNA mentioned related demonstrations broke out in the cities of Arak, Bojnourd, Hamedan, Hormozgan, Sanandaj, Semnan, Shiraz and Yazd.