Loading ...US-Iran crisis threatens all-out war in Iraq, Mideast, world – Iraqi PM
“I hope this will be a memorable lesson for America,” said Iranian Defense Minister Amir Hatami;
Soleimani and Iraqi militia commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, along with at least 10 other people, were killed in a US air strike in Baghdad last week. Ali Shamkhani, secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, has said that 13 “revenge scenarios” were being considered, Fars news agency reported. Even the weakest option would prove “a historic nightmare for the Americans,” he said.
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani told the United States on Wednesday that Washington might have “cut off the arm” of General Qasem Soleimani but America’s “leg” in the region would be cut off in response.