While massacring its own people in their tens and thousands, Tehran has threatened the U.S. with an ‘all-out’ war if President Donald Trump orders a strike against regime targets.
“This time we will treat any attack – limited, unlimited, surgical, kinetic, whatever they call it – as an all-out war against us, and we will respond in the hardest way possible to settle this,” a senior regime official told Reuters.
In addition to that, the chief of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards (IRGC), whose forces are currently committing the biggest mass killing in recent Iranian history, boasted that he has his “finger on the trigger” as U.S. naval and military assets head toward the Persian Gulf.
The Pentagon is moving the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group in the region as the Iranian regime continues to massacre its people and vows to go ahead with mass executions.
UK’s Sky News reported the Iranian threat:
A senior Iranian official has warned that the country will treat any attack “as an all-out war against us” ahead of the arrival of a US aircraft carrier strike group and other assets in the region. (…)”This military build-up – we hope it is not intended for real confrontation – but our military is ready for the worst-case scenario. This is why everything is on high alert in Iran,” said the Iranian official, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity.The official went on to say: “This time we will treat any attack – limited, unlimited, surgical, kinetic, whatever they call it – as an all-out war against us, and we will respond in the hardest way possible to settle this.”
On Friday, President Trump announced that a U.S. “armada” was on its way as he weighs possible military options against Tehran. The Khamenei regime has rejected the president’s previous claims that it halted the planned execution of hundreds of protesters following Washington’s interventions.
NBC News reported Friday:
President Donald Trump said an American “armada” is heading toward Iran, as the death toll from the regime’s crackdown on nationwide unrest rose past at least 5,000, activists said.Tehran on Friday dismissed as “completely false” Trump’s repeated suggestion that his threats had halted the planned executions of more than 800 protesters. Trump had said that such killings would be a trigger for him to launch military action.”I said, ‘If you hang those people, you’re going to be hit harder than you’ve ever been hit,'” he told reporters on Air Force One as he returned from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “And an hour before this horrible” event, they canceled it, he said. “That was a good sign.”Trump added that “we have an armada heading that direction and maybe we won’t have to use it.” The United States has “a big force going to Iran. I’d rather not see anything happen,” he added, but “we have a lot of ships going that direction just in case.”
Meanwhile, the regime’s brutal crackdown has left over 20,000 demonstrators dead, according to the latest estimates. “The number of people reported killed in Iran’s protest crackdown has surged as rights groups continue to verify suspected fatalities, with one United Nations special rapporteur saying the total could be more than 20,000,” Bloomberg reported Tuesday.
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