Former acting and deputy CIA director Michael Morell has warned that US president Donald Trump’s decision to kill a top Iranian general will lead to “dead civilian Americans.”
He said that the drone strike that killed General Qassem Soleimani at Baghdad Airport will trigger a deadly response from the Iranian government, which has already vowed a ‘harsh revenge’
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Press TV reports: Soleimani, the commander of the Quds Force of Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), and Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, the second-in-command of Iraq’s Popular Mobilization Units (PMU), were killed in US airstrikes in the Iraqi capital Baghdad early on Friday. The US strike took place at the Baghdad International Airport, killing eight other people.
The Pentagon said US President Donald Trump had ordered Soleimani’s assassination.
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei promised “severe revenge” for the death of the military commander. Ayatollah Khamenei said the “cruelest people on earth” assassinated the “honorable” commander who “courageously fought for years against the evils and bandits of the world.”
Morell told CBS News on Friday that the deadly US strike will trigger a harsh response from the Islamic Republic of Iran, saying the United States will have to pay “a very high cost” for killing General Soleimani.
“Number one, there will be dead Americans, dead civilian Americans, as a result of this,” Morell said.
He added that Americans are no longer safe in Iraq, Lebanon, Bahrain, and other places in the Middle East.
Morell added that the assassination of General Soleimani sets a “precedent that senior officials are fair game in this hybrid, not-yet-at-war kind of scenario.”
“At a time and place of their choosing, they’re going to conduct” a strike that “kills a senior American official,” he stated.
The former CIA director warned that the decision to assassinate the top Iranian commander will come at “an extraordinarily high price.”
“And that’s why the Bush administration and the Obama administration chose not to do something like this,” he added.
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Wow, Morell is a truly brilliant analyst! Did he figure this out all by himself or did he need to google the answer?
He asked his mother in law
The CIA ever since Brennan is so anti-Trump they have lost their ability to function as they should!
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Hate Iran less than the USA, hope Iran wins.
Former CIA a$$wipe, Iran already killed Americans.. This is PAYBACK… Want to warn someone? Warn the Democrats to SUICIDE before we get to them.