Posted on 07/26/2018 11:17:40 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
An Iranian military commander said on Thursday Donald Trump should address any threats against Tehran directly to him, and mocked the US president as using the language of "nightclubs and gambling halls".
The comments by Maj-Gen Qassem Suleimani, who heads the Quds Force of Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guards, were the latest salvo in a war of words between the two countries.
"As a soldier, it is my duty to respond to Trump’s threats. If he wants to use the language of threat, he should talk to me, not to the president [Hassan Rouhani]," Soleimani was quoted as saying by the Iranian Young Journalists’ Club.
Soleimani’s message was in essence a warning to the US to stop threatening Iran with war or risk exposing itself to an Iranian response.
"We are near you, where you can’t even imagine … Come. We are ready. If you begin the war, we will end the war," Tasnim news agency quoted Soleimani as saying.
On Sunday night, Trump said in a tweet directed at Rouhani: "Never, ever threaten the US again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before…. We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words…. Be cautious!" A day earlier, Rouhani had said in a speech that hostile US policies could lead to "the mother of all wars".
Fanning the heightened tensions, US national security adviser John Bolton said in a statement on Monday: "President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before."
Bolton is a proponent of interventionist foreign policy and was US ambassador to the UN in the administration of George Bush during the Iraq war....
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Gen Mattis’ response should be epic.
Piss ant on an elephants ass!!!
Sounds like a threat.
ask the last guy that said “mother of all battles” how that turned out for him. you’ll have to dig him up first . . .
Iran is just like a drunk that just won’t shut up and go away
“‘If you begin the war, we will end it’”
Yeah, with a white flag in both hands.
This guy seems like a proud graduate of the Saddam Hussein public speaking series.
Here’s to hoping he has the same stellar future as his teacher.
they’ll end it by surrender in droves
They are in almost all of our convenient stores. If the crap hits the fan do not buy anything from those places, the water, sodas, chips etc... could be laced with cyanide. They could wipe out millions in days.
Iranian military chief tells Trump: ‘If you begin the war, we will end it the minute we surrender’.
Obama let them hang, I think Trump is actively backing the revolt.
America laughs in your face Abdula Dummy.
Maybe he should wait until his country can manufacture a single weapon design of their own.
Iran didn’t even have the money to fund their terrorism organization Hezbollah until Obama gave them illegal cash.
I doubt they have the fund to go 1 week at war with the US.
Besides, we’ve heard these goat humping idiots in Iraq say the same things and we kicked their ass.
Very curious choice of words. Most Iranians I have known have been very nice, decent people. I suspect there are some among the military that despise the mullahs as much as the civilian population does.
I think he’s hinting that they have nukes and dirty bombs here. With Obama’s immigration policies and OTMs coming across the border with someone else’s kids he may not be lieing.
“Iranian military chief tells Trump: ‘If you begin the war, we will end it’”
Yeah, they’ll surrender.
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