'Like ISIS, Like Hitler, Like Genghis! They all hate cultures. Trump is a 'terrorist in a suit,'' Iran's Information and Telecommunications Minister Mohammad-Javad Azari Jahromi wrote on Twitter.
A reminder to those hallucinating about emulating ISIS war crimes by targeting our cultural heritage:
Through MILLENNIA of history, barbarians have come and ravaged our cities, razed our monuments and burnt our libraries.Trump's threat to attack Iran's cultural sites also sparked a furious response from Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif. "A reminder to those hallucinating about emulating ISIS war crimes by targeting our cultural heritage: Through MILLENNIA of history, barbarians have come and ravaged our cities, razed our monuments and burnt our libraries," he tweeted.Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed"harsh revenge" for the death of Soleimani.
Trump took to Twitter to defend the killing of Soleimani, saying the U.S. had rid"the world of their terrorist leader who had just killed an American, & badly wounded many others." The president also declared that the U.S. has already"targeted 52 Iranian sites , some at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture." He added that they would be"HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD."Democratic Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Ilhan Omar"This is a war crime," Ocasio-Cortez wrote on Twitter.
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