President Hassan Rohani of Iran. Image: Twitter@Brietbart
‘To the dustbin of history’: Iran’s Rouhani directs harsh farewell message to ‘criminal’ Trump
Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani said the impending end of Trump’s term of office is likely to usher in more stability for the region, as well as the whole world.
President Hassan Rohani of Iran. Image: Twitter@Brietbart
Donald Trump is just a few days away from going to the “dustbin of history,” Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani has said, restating Tehran’s resolve to avenge the death of General Qassem Soleimani who was assassinated by the US.
Speaking during a cabinet meeting, Rouhani harshly criticized his controversial US counterpart, focusing on the assassination of General Soleimani which was personally ordered by the US President at the beginning of 2020.
The assassination has backfired for Trump, Rohani argued, not only doing “great damage” to the US position in the Middle East region, but ultimately becoming a factor in his political downfall, Rouhani argued.
Trump the criminal
Rouhani said the impending end of Trump’s term in office is likely to bring more stability for the region, as well as the whole world.
“The enemy’s goal was to break the resistance in the region with the martyrdom of Martyr Soleimani, but it was the other way around and the spirit of resistance in the region boosted.”
Iran’s leader didn’t hold back, branding Trump a “criminal” whose life was about to “end,” apparently referring, however, more to the US president’s political career rather than his physical existence.
“One of the effects of this stupid and disgraceful act was that Trumpism ended and in a few days, the life of this criminal will end, and he will go to the dustbin of history, and we are very happy about this and we believe that the period after Trump will be a better condition for regional and global stability.“
Tehran again vows revenge
General Soleimani, commander of the Quds force within Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), was killed on January 3 outside Baghdad International Airport by a US drone strike, as he was traveling in a car alongside high-ranking Iraqi military officials, including Iraqi paramilitary chief Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
The assassination spurred a furious reaction from Tehran, launching missile strikes on several military installations across Iraq housing troops of the US-led coalition.
While Washington tried hard to downplay the impact of the attacks, dismissing them as a “vanity show of force,” it later emerged later that dozens of soldiers suffered from psychological conditions during the strikes.
Breach of US obligations in Iraq
The assassination, however, not only angered Iran, but was widely perceived as an insult and a breach of US obligations in Iraq.
The killing prompted the Iraqi parliament to show rare unity and pass a non-binding resolution urging the full withdrawal of all foreign troops from the country – primarily, those of the US and its coalition allies.
Soleimani’s murder also triggered a chain of attacks on US installations across Iraq, military and diplomatic sites alike.
The repeated shelling of the facilities forced the Pentagon to abandon several military bases, returning full control of the sites to the Iraqi government.
The constant threat of attacks also impelled the US to install additional defenses at its already heavily fortified embassy in Baghdad’s Green Zone.
The enhanced defenses were put through test earlier this month when the embassy came under a new barrage of rockets.
Multiple videos from the scene showed rapid fire guns engaging the incoming targets.
