Will hit 52 Iran sites if they attack US: Trump

January 05, 2020 08:15

President Donald Trump on Sunday has warned Iran saying if it strikes any Americans or American assets, the United States has 'targeted 52 Iranian sites' and it 'will be hit very fast and very hard'.

'Let this serve as a warning that if Iran strikes any Americans or American assets, we have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing 52 American hostages taken by Iran many yrs ago), some at a very high level and important to Iran and Iranian culture, will be hit very fast and hard,' Trump wrote on Twitter.

He further said that Iran is talking 'very boldly' about targeting certain US assets to seek revenge for Qasem Soleimani, who the US claimed had killed an American, and badly wounded many others.

'Iran is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets as revenge for our ridding the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, and badly wounded many others, not to mention all of the people he had killed over his lifetime...,' he wrote in another tweet.

Trump on Saturday had said that the killing of Soleimani by US military was aimed 'to stop a war, not to start a war'.

He also said that Qassem was plotting attacks on US diplomats and military personnel before he was killed. -- ANI

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