Soleimani was planning jihad attacks against U.S. forces in Iraq, but from the standpoint of the mullahs (and all other Islamic supremacists), the fault never lies with them. They never take any responsibility for their actions. Every action by infidels is gratuitous and unwarranted, and requires revenge.
“Iran taunts Trump and says plans for ‘revenge’ over the drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani are ‘obvious, serious and real’ – after reports of a plot to assassinate a US ambassador,” by Andrew Court, Dailymail.com, September 20, 2020:
The chief of Iran’s Revolutionary Guard has threatened revenge on everyone who played a role in the death of General Qassem Soleimani, who was killed in a US drone strike in January.
On Saturday, the Revolutionary Guard released a statement from General Hossein Salami, which featured a direct message to US President Donald Trump.
‘Mr. Trump! Our revenge for martyrdom of our great general is obvious, serious and real!’ the statement – posted on the Revolutionary Guard’s website – read.
Earlier this week, Trump warned that Washington would harshly respond to any Iranian attempts to take revenge for the death of Soleimani.
He tweeted: ‘If they [Iran] hit us in any way, any form, written instructions already done we´re going to hit them 1000 times harder.’
The president’s warning came in response to a report that Iran was plotting to assassinate the US Ambassador to South Africa Lana Marks, in retaliation for Soleimani’s killing.
‘We took out the world’s number one terrorist and the mass murderer of American troops and many, many troops and many people all over the world,’ Trump said. ‘Qasem Soleimani is dead. He’s´s dead. Bad guy. Bad guy. Very bad guy.’
But in the statement put out on Saturday, Salami rejected the report of an Iranian plot to assassinate Marks, but made clear that Iran intends to avenge the general’s death.
‘Do you think we hit a female ambassador in return to our martyred brother?´ the general said.
We will hit those who had direct and indirect roles. You should know that everybody who had role in the event will be hit, and this is a serious message. We do prove everything in practice.’
American officials said they had been made aware of threats towards Marks, 66, since the spring but the intelligence detail has suddenly become more specific in recent weeks….