TEHRAN, IRAN.- A Twitter account of Iran’s supreme guide, the Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, asked for the General Qasem Soleimani, murdered in Iraq last year, and threatened the former US president Donald Trump, who is said to have ordered his death.
“Revenge is inevitable. Soleimani’s murderer and the one who ordered his death must retaliate,” reads the message published Thursday night in Persian on the @khamenei_site account, which belongs to an ayatollah website.
The sentence is accompanied by a montage of photos showing Trump playing golf by the sea, while the shadow of a fighter plane is projected onto the grass.
Soleimani was the head of the Quds Force, an elite unit of the Guardians of the Revolution, Iran’s ideological army, and the architect of the regional strategy Islamic Republic.
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He was murdered on January 3, 2020 in Baghdad in a US drone strike ordered by Trump, who left office on Wednesday and retired to just one Florida residence with golf course.
Khamenei has reiterated several times that Soleimani’s death will be avenged. On January 1, the head of the Iranian Judicial Authority, Ebrahim Raïssi, stated that the emblematic general’s killers “will not be safe anywhere in the world”.
On January 9, Twitter suspended a message posted by one of Khamenei’s social network accounts in which has banned the import of vaccines against the coronavirus Made in United States and in the United Kingdom because he believed these countries could not be trusted.