Posted on 01/07/2020 10:09:24 AM PST by SeekAndFind
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif told CBS News correspondent Elizabeth Palmer on Tuesday that his country would retaliate for the U.S. strike that killed a top Iranian general, but he said that "unlike Trump" has threatened to do, the Islamic Republic will respond in a proportionate manner "against legitimate targets."
Zarif would not tell Palmer what Iran's leaders consider legitimate targets, nor when Iran would launch its retaliation.
"The international law of war is very clear about legitimate targets," he insisted, pointing Palmer to the Geneva Convention which lists such targets as military or infrastructure sites.
The U.S.-educated diplomat blasted the Trump administration as "a regime that has no respect for international law, threatens to commit war crimes — attacking cultural sites."
It was a reaction to Mr. Trump's threat over the weekend to attack 52 sites identified as targets inside Iran should the country retaliate for the U.S. airstrike that killed Major General Qassem Soleimani on Friday. Mr. Trump has insisted that the U.S. would be within its rights to strike "cultural sites" in Iran.
Palmer pressed Zarif to clarify whether Iran's response would be carried out by the Islamic Republic's military, or by its many allied proxy forces across the Middle East, such as the Hezbollah militant group based in Lebanon, or the Shiite militias it backs in Iraq. The foreign minister denied that Iran has control over such groups, and said whatever retaliation they might seek would be separate and apart from Tehran's own.
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I do see, perhaps targets like 241 sleeping US service members on a peacekeeping mission...
Hey!
Iran!
Let The Pointer Sisters point out something to you.
“I’m just burning doing the neutron dance!”
2 days ago they were all about “destroying America”.
By the end of the week: “ok, we are really just going to buy one Netflix account and share it with the whole country!!”
Outstanding point, and one that Trump should use!
Articles 22, 27, and 29 from the Vienna Convention on Diplomatic Relations (1961):
Article 22.1.The premises of the mission shall be inviolable. The agents of the receiving State may not enter them, except with the consent of the head of the mission.
2. The receiving State is under a special duty to take all appropriate steps to protect the premises of the mission against any intrusion or damage and to prevent any disturbance of the peace of the mission or impairment of its dignity.
3. The premises of the mission, their furnishings and other property thereon and the means of transport of the mission shall be immune from search, requisition, attachment or execution.
Article 27.2: The official correspondence of the mission shall be inviolable.
Article 29: The person of a diplomatic agent shall be inviolable. He shall not be liable to any form of arrest or detention. The receiving State shall treat him with due respect and shall take all appropriate steps to prevent any attack on his person, freedom or dignity.
Well take your best shot.
Message to Zarif.
Never mind a proportionate response. Give it all you got you Camel humping bastard because no matter what you do you will get it back x 100.
the left and msm are salivating over the possibility of Iran retaliating so they can scream at president Trump- That’s how sick the left are-
Like the US Embassy, for instance.
To a moslem, all non-moslems are legitimate targets...
Look on the bright side. This is playing by OUR rules.
Zarif needs to be the next target after the Supreme Leader.
We’re your huckleberry, sport.
Bring it.
Saying that they will obey international law is the first smart thing the Iranians have said. Now let’s see if their Republican Guard Terrorists can live up to that.
RE: Saying that they will obey international law is the first smart thing the Iranians have said.
Should we believe what they say?
Remember this word — TAQIYYA.
Dems could use this occasion to physically get rid of Trump by covertly helping Iranian operatives in US to do the hit.
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That would come as no surprise to me, which would confirm my contention that they themselves are enemy targets.
All so our domestic enemies can tell us how much more honorable Iran is than President Trump.
These days with the legitimacy rate being around 45%, they are going to have a tough time knowing their targets have a Mom AND a Dad.
So the equivalent of Himmler is killed, and they invite Von Ribbentroff on to give Adolf Hitlers viewpoint. Gotta love our “American” media.
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