ADAD“To Iranian President Rouhani: NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,” he wrote on Twitter in all capitals. “It is not in our president’s dignity to respond to you,” he told Trump via Iran’s Tasnim news agency. You know that this war will destroy all that you possess.”For a high-level commander in a regime that bans most major social media platforms for its citizens, Soleimani was unusually Internet savvy. Justifying the U.S. airstrike that killed Soleimani in Baghdad on Friday, Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper said, “Gen. Soleimani was actively developing plans to attack American diplomats and service members in Iraq and throughout the region."

Source: Washington Post January 03, 2020 19:32 UTC