On Sunday, Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has resumed the requirements of the withdrawal of US troops from the Middle East. He said that Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria. About it reports Reuters.
Iran was on the verge of full-scale conflict with the United States, when on 3 January in Baghdad with a drone was killed a military commander of Iran’s Qasem Soleimani, forcing Tehran to retaliate by firing rockets at the U.S. base in Iraq a few days later.
According to the transcript of the speech published on the website of Ayatollah Khamenei said that American actions in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria led to the fact that they hated.
Iran Supreme Leader says Americans will be expelled from Iraq and Syria https://t.co/MLS7O30H6h pic.twitter.com/9ACJMIl84c
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 17, 2020
«The Americans will remain in Iraq and Syria and will be sent», — said Khamenei.
Last month, U.S. President Donald trump said that he gave instructions to the Navy of the United States to shoot any Iranian ships that are ships of the US Navy, but later said that did not change the rules of warfare.
I have instructed the United States Navy to shoot down and destroy any and all Iranian gunboats if they harass our ships at sea.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) April 22, 2020
After the Declaration of the trump, the head of the elite Revolutionary guard, Iran’s major General Hossein salami said that the Islamic Republic will destroy U.S. warships if they are to threaten her security in the Persian Gulf.
