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A top Iranian general has warned that Iran will target the US military to avenge the assassination of the leading military commander Qassem Soleimani last week. In a CNN interview that aired Sunday, Maj. Gen. Hossein Dehghan — who advises Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei — said that Iran's response would "for sure will be military and against military sites." He also suggested that Iran's response would come not from the array of Iranian proxy forces spread throughout the Middle East but from the Iranian military itself. "It might be argued that there could be proxy operations," he said....

Tehran, Iran (CNN) - The military adviser to Iran's Supreme Leader said Sunday that Tehran's response to the killing by the United States of its most most influential general will "for sure be military." In an exclusive interview with CNN in Tehran, the adviser -- Maj. Gen. Hossein Dehghan -- made the most specific and direct threat yet by a senior Iranian official following the killing of Gen. Qasem Soleimani in a US drone strike in Baghdad. Dehghan is a former defense minister and is now the main military adviser to Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He told CNN that reprisals would...