Iran's Foreign Ministry has taken aim at the rhetoric of US special representative for Iran, Brian Hook, as the latter unambiguously stated that Commander Soleimani's successor General Ghaani could meet the same fate.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi has blasted US threats to neutralise the newly appointed head of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' elite Quds Force, Esmail Ghaani, as “an official publicising and blatant unveiling of targeted and state terrorism”.
“Now, after the Zionist regime [of Israel], the US is the second regime to officially announce that it has employed the resources of its government and armed forces for terrorist acts and that it will continue them in the future”, Mousavi explained, adding that Washington's recourse to terrorist acts is a clear sign of the US establishment's “weakness, desperation, and confusion”.
Mousavi called out “brazen remarks and terrorist acts” by US leaders, urging the international community to also condemn them “because the continuation of this trend would sooner or later befall everyone”.
The comments come in response to US special representative for Iran Brian Hook's Thursday remarks that General Esmail Ghaani could end up like his predecessor, General Qasem Soleimani, killed in a US drone attack near Baghdad Airport on 3 January.
Hook expressed what was perceived as a threat in an interview with the newspaper Asharq…
