Tehran responds to Trump’s warning, saying he’s a ‘terrorist in a suit’

Iran condemned US president Donald Trump as a “terrorist in a suit” on Sunday after the he threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites hard if Tehran attacks Americans or U.S. assets in retaliation for the assassination of top military official Qassem Soleimani.

Mohammad Javad Azari-Jahromi, the information and telecommunications minister of Iran tweeted on Sunday, “Like ISIS, Like Hitler, Like Genghis! They all hate cultures. Trump is a terrorist in a suit. He will learn history very soon that NOBODY can defeat ‘the Great Iranian Nation & Culture”.

Soleimani, Iran’s leading military man was assassinated on Friday US hit the target at Baghdad airport, this was the consequence of long-running conflicts between Washington and Tehran that the attack happened in Iraq raising the threat of wider conflict in the Middle East.

Soleimani was the architect of Tehran’s overseas secret military operations as head of the Revolutionary Guards’ Quds Force.

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei gave the assurance on Friday that Iran would seek harsh revenge for his death.

On Saturday, Trump responded to Tehran’s threat of taking strong revenge in a series of tweets, saying Iran “is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets”.

According to Trump, the United States has “targeted 52 Iranian sites”, some “at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD”.

As Trump said, the 52 targets represented the 52 Americans held captive in Iran after being detained at the U.S. Embassy in 1979 during the country’s Islamic Revolution.

According to state television of Iran, the country has no diplomatic relations with US since 2018, Tehran summoned the Swiss envoy representing U.S. interests in Iran to protest at “Trump’s unfriendly remarks”.

It was Trump’s withdrawal of the United States from the deal in 2018 and re-imposition of sanctions on Iran that touched off a new twist of tensions after a brief thaw following the accord.

As Iran and U.S attacked each other in a war of words, the European Union, Britain and Oman urged the two countries to seek to tackle the crisis with the world powers’ 2015 nuclear deal.

Josep Borrell, the European Union foreign policy chief has urged Iran’s foreign minister by phone on Sunday to work to de-escalate the situation and invited him to Brussels to discuss means of maintaining world powers’ 2015 nuclear deal with Iran.