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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We can do anything you can do better..... Just test us.
They’ll fire a rocket at something ...miss...and then claim a victory.
We can do anything you can do better..... Just test us.
How many “res” should be on the front of retaliation? re-re-re-retaliation?
As opposed to all the illegitimate targets they’ve attacked over the past 40 years?
“The international law of war is very clear about legitimate targets, . . . ‘
So does international law have anything to say about embassies?
So how long before they put nuclear development facilities under ‘cultural sites’, if they haven’t already?
So the general was a legit target. Thanks for clearing that up.
Terrorists quoting the Geneva Convention to us? Haha! This whole press release was probably written by John F. Kerry, and dictated to Marie Harf.
Baghdad Bob redux.
Are they going to clear their targets with Obama? Seeing as he has paid them big bucks it would only seem logical.
Iran has been at war with us since the overthrow of the Shah.
Most of our leaders just pull their pants down and bend over.
Not Trump. His responses have been very measured - but he will not allow the US to be Iran’s punching bag.
They know the US has a president that WILL hit back.
Dems could use this occasion to physically get rid of Trump by covertly helping Iranian operatives in US to do the hit.
“against legitimate targets”
You mean like the 50 American hostages you held for over a year?
Or just tell their people they hit something that we just tore down. I don’t think their media asks follow up questions.
It’s time to settle this sh*t. And that freak in North Korea too.
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