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Iran plans assassination to avenge killing of top general Soleimani, Trump says

by French Press Agency - AFP

WASHINGTON Sep 15, 2020 - 10:12 am GMT+3
President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after participating in a Latinos for Trump Coalition roundtable in Phoenix, Arizona on Sept. 14, 2020. (AP Photo)
President Donald Trump acknowledges the crowd after participating in a Latinos for Trump Coalition roundtable in Phoenix, Arizona on Sept. 14, 2020. (AP Photo)
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U.S. President Donald Trump on Monday vowed that any attack by Iran would be met with a response "1,000 times greater in magnitude," after reports that Iran planned to avenge the killing of top genearal Qassem Soleimani.

A U.S. media report, quoting unnamed officials, said that an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate the U.S. ambassador to South Africa was planned before the presidential election in November.

"According to press reports, Iran may be planning an assassination, or other attack, against the United States in retaliation for the killing of terrorist leader Soleimani," Trump tweeted.

"Any attack by Iran, in any form, against the United States will be met with an attack on Iran that will be 1,000 times greater in magnitude!"

Relations between Washington and Tehran have been tense since the Iranian revolution, and have spiraled since Trump unilaterally pulled out of a landmark international nuclear deal with Iran in May 2018.

In January, a U.S. drone strike killed Soleimani in Baghdad, and Washington is pushing to extend an arms embargo on Iran that starts to progressively expire in October as well as reimposing U.N. sanctions on the Islamic republic.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Monday declined to comment directly on the reported threat to Lana Marks, the U.S. ambassador to South Africa who is a close ally of Trump.

But Pompeo told Fox News that "the Islamic Republic of Iran has engaged in assassination efforts all across the world. They have assassinated people in Europe and in other parts of the world. We take these... allegations seriously."

"We make very clear to the Islamic Republic of Iran that this kind of activity — attacking any American any place at any time, whether it's an American diplomat, an ambassador, or one of our service members— is completely unacceptable."

The Iranian foreign ministry spokesman on Monday dismissed the report of an assassination plot as "baseless" and part of "repetitive and rotten methods to create an anti-Iranian atmosphere on the international stage."

The Iranian navy last week said it drove off American aircraft that flew close to an area where military exercises were underway near the Strait of Hormuz.

The military said three U.S. aircraft were detected by Iran's air force radars after they entered the country's air defense identification zone.

In June last year, a U.S. RQ-4 drone was shot down by Iran after allegedly violating Iranian airspace — a claim the U.S. has denied.

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