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Iran Not Intimidated by Trump Bullying Rhetoric

reporter 1222 — Sun, 11 Oct 2020 04:55:31 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – Iran said on Saturday it is “not intimidated by the bullying rhetoric” of US President Donald Trump after he went on an expletive-ridden rant while threatening the Islamic Republic.

Speaking during a two-hour phone conversation with conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Friday, Trump said: “Iran knows that, and they’ve been put on notice: If you f— around with us, if you do something bad to us, we are gonna do things to you that have never been done before,” Press TV reported.

“I hate to say it on an important show like this, but I’ll say it, you don’t see the terror the way you used to see the terror. And they know if they do anything against us, they’ll pay 1,000-fold,” he said.

The insult was censored on the slightly delayed radio broadcast, but was captured on Limbaugh’s livestream and memorialized in a transcript on his website.

Iran’s Foreign Ministry spokesman Saeed Khatibzadeh responded to Trump, tweeting that the Iranians would not be intimidated and would rather “choose response to US crimes,” including illegal sanctions and the January assassination of top anti-terror commander Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

“The Iranian people aren’t intimidated by the bullying rhetoric of the failing & lawless US regime. Our people leave no stone unturned in defending Iran’s dignity. WE will choose response to US crimes— incl. sadistic sanctions & criminal assassination of ISIS #1 enemy Gen. Soleimani,” Khatibzadeh tweeted.

The spokesperson for Iran’s permanent mission to the United Nations dismissed the US president’s words as electioneering.

“Mr. Trump’s attempt to portray himself as a tough guy is unsurprising as the presidential election in America is fast approaching,” Alireza Miryousefi told the US weekly, Newsweek.

He also noted that Iran would not back down in the face of Trump’s remarks, nor by his administration’s decision to double down on sanctions or even actions like General Soleimani’s assassination.

“The US is waging a cruel and illegal economic war, tantamount to economic terrorism, on the people of Iran,” Miryousefi said. “The US also cowardly assassinated General Soleimani, a hero in the fight against Daesh and other terrorists, while he was the official guest of the Iraqi government on a peace mission.”

“The people of Iran have proven to be resilient and not intimidated by such inappropriate, irresponsible and empty rhetoric,” he added.

During the interview, Trump also said Iran would sign a new nuclear deal with Washington within one month if he wins the November 3rd election.

“If I win, we’ll have a great deal with Iran within one month,” Trump said.

Tensions between the US and Iran have run particularly high throughout the Trump presidency after he pulled Washington out of a multilateral nuclear deal in 2018 and unleashed a tough campaign of sanctions and military threats against the Islamic Republic.

The US has in recent months tightened its inhumane sanctions against Iran, defying warnings from Tehran and international human rights organizations that the restrictions are severely hampering the Iranian health sector’s fight against the coronavirus pandemic.

On Thursday, the US Treasury Department imposed sanctions on 18 Iranian banks with an aim to cut off the Islamic Republic from the world’s financial system.

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Human Rights Watch condemn threats to Iranian culture sites

reporter 1222 — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 13:59:52 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – The US-based Human Rights Watch said that Trump’s threat to attack important Iranian culture sites would be war crimes if carried out.

On Sunday, Human Rights Watch condemned the president’s latest threat to Iran’s culture sites.

“President Trump should publicly reverse his threats against Iran’s cultural property and make clear that he will not authorize nor order war crimes,” said Andrea Prasow, acting Washington director at Human Rights Watch. “The US Defense Department should publicly reaffirm its commitment to abide by the laws of war and comply only with lawful military orders.”

“Trump’s threat to attack Iran’s cultural heritage shows his callous disregard for the global rule of law. Whether refusing to condemn the brutal murder of Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi or pardoning convicted war criminals, Trump has shown little respect for human rights as part of US foreign policy,” she added.

Targeting cultural sites with military action is considered a war crime under international law, including a UN Security Council resolution supported by the Trump administration in 2017 and the 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property.

Yesterday, US President Donald Trump had threatened that the United States will target 52 sensitive cultural sites of the Islamic Republic of Iran in case Iran carried out its promised revenge over the US assassination of Lt. Gen. Qasem Soleimani.

Trump’s threat of Iran faced widespread condemnations both inside the outside the country but despite this, Trump repeated such threat yesterday.

The United States terrorist forces assassinated Lt. General Soleimani and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s pro-government Popular Mobilization Units (PMU) — better known as Hashd al-Sha’abi — in an airstrike at Baghdad’s international airport early on Friday.

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Trump emphasize on striking Iran cultural sites

reporter 1222 — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 12:02:58 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – US President Donald Trump has doubled down on his threat to strike Iranian cultural heritage sites, asserting to a group of reporters that the United States has the right to bomb such targets.

Talking to reporters on Sunday in the White House, Trump dismissed criticism from human rights organizations pointing out that such an action would be considered a war crime under international law.

“They’re allowed to kill our people. They’re allowed to torture and maim our people. They’re allowed to use roadside bombs and blow up our people. And we’re not allowed to touch their cultural sites? It doesn’t work that way,” Trump said.

On Saturday, Trump claimed that his military would hit “very important” targets, including cultural heritage sites if the Iranians want to take a retaliatory action against the US assassination of Lieutenant General Qassem Soleimani.

“We have … targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level & important to Iran” said Trump in a tweet while making a reference to the occupation of the former US embassy in Tehran in 1979.

The threat came after Iranian authorities vowed vengeance for the US assassination of General Soleimani, the commander of Iran’s elite Quds force, Iraqi commander Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis as well as several of their Iranian and Iraqi comrades in Baghdad early on Friday.

Many inside the US and across the world have criticized Trump for ordering the deadly airstrike, saying the move could lead to a major conflict in the Middle East.

Trump threatening threat to strike 52 important cultural sites in Iran has provoked a strong backlash, with many calling it a “war crime.”

US Democratic Presidential candidate Joe Biden blasted Trump’s tweets on Iran as “incredibly dangerous and irresponsible”.

“When he makes statements like that, it just seems to me to be he’s going off on a tweetstorm on his own, and it’s incredibly dangerous and irresponsible,” Biden told reporters.

“I have no idea whether he’s coordinated with any of our allies. I have no idea whether or not he has the support of his own generals,” the former vice president added. “This is a guy who seems to be unmoored.”

On Sunday, Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif also took to his official Twitter account to remind Trump that although “barbarians have come and ravaged our cities, razed our monuments and burnt our libraries” throughout history, Iranians still stand tall.

Zarif also drew an analogy between Trump’s assertions and Daesh’s crimes in destroying the cultural heritage of some regional countries, noting that the US president was “hallucinating about emulating ISIS war crimes by targeting our cultural heritage.”

“Having committed grave breaches of international law in Friday’s cowardly assassinations, @realdonaldtrump threatens to commit again new breaches of JUS COGENS,” Zarif tweeted. “Targeting cultural sites is a WAR CRIME.”

“President Trump should publicly reverse his threats against Iran’s cultural property and make clear that he will not authorize nor order war crimes,” Andrea Prasow, acting Washington director at Human Rights Watch, said in a statement.

“The US Defense Department should publicly reaffirm its commitment to abide by the laws of war and comply only with lawful military orders,” Prasow added.

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Cultural heritage belongs to all humanity

reporter 1222 — Mon, 06 Jan 2020 09:13:37 +0000

TEHRAN (Iran News) – In a reaction to US President Trump’s threat to targeting Iranian cultural centers, Chinese Ambassador to the Islamic Republic of Iran Cheung Hua said that “cultural heritage belongs to all humanity.”

The marks of Cultural heritage belongs to all humanity was made on Monday in a tweet while also posting pictures of some cultural and historic cites in Iran.

Trump’s threat of Iran faced widespread condemnations both inside the outside the country but despite this, Trump repeated such threat yesterday.

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