Hezbollah To Trump: American Troops In Middle East Will Return In Coffins

By Bimbo Ogunnaike

The chief of Lebanon’s Iran-allied Hezbollah movement, Hassan Nasrallah, has warned US President Donald Trump  that the country’s troops in the Middle East would return home in coffins.

Nasrallah explained that the threat was in retaliation for the assassination of Major General Qassem Soleiman.

The Hezbollah chief stated that the response to the assassination of Soleimani was not only Iran’s responsibility but also that of the entire axis of resistance.

He stated that attacks on US military forces in the Middle East will be “fair punishment” for the crime, listing US bases, naval ships and military personnel.

“The targeted killing of General Soleimani and Muhandis is the beginning of a new era not for Iraq or Iran, but for the whole region.

“More than three years into his presidency, Trump has failed to accomplish the goals he had defined at the beginning of his tenure. Previous US attempts to assassinate General Soleimani had ended in failure. All of Trump’s forms of pressure to subdue Iran have also failed to realize that goal.”

A US-backed airstrike had killed Soleimani, who is the Revolutionary Guard General and head of the elite Quds Force, at Baghdad International Airport.