Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s Supreme leader has responded to President Donald Trump’s Tuesday threats to attack Iran if there are any damages to US lives and properties after protesters stormed the US Embassy in Baghdad, Iraq, destroying parts of the building and setting fire on parts of the walls.
Dozens of Iraqi protesters stormed the US embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday and smashed the main door, setting fire to the reception area after US Military launched attacks on Iran backed Kataib Hezbollah, killing 25 suspected terrorists as retaliation for last week’s killing of an American contractor in a rocket attack on an Iraqi military base.
President Trump in a series of Tweets said he holds Iran responsible for any loss of American properties or lives and that the US will retaliate. But Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei tweeted that the US “can’t do anything.”
Khamenei tweeted “If you were logical which you’re not you’d see that your crimes in Iraq, Afghanistan… have made nations hate you,” According to Khamenei, Iran doesn’t want war, but wouldn’t hesitate to fight if it has to defend its rights and interests.
A spokesman for Kataib Hezbollah, the alleged Iran sponsored terror group, that US targeted in the attacks that killed 25 alleged terrorist, told CNN that the embassy protests on Tuesday and Wednesday were a “first step.”
He said “The American administration should understand the following: the first step was to protest near the American embassy, we are waiting their reactions to determine the second step. First, close the doors of the evil embassy, which we consider a spy building and an operations room to administer and sabotage Iraq’s well-being. We also call on the US to withdraw their military forces which are in Iraq illegally.”
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