Trump says US will hit Iran harder if it attacks American base, citizen

• Trump says United States spent two trillion dollars on Military equipment.
• If Iran launches an attack, US will hit it with new equipment without hesitation: US president.
• Trump says the United States has “targeted 52 Iranian sites” and that some are “at a very high level and important to Iran.

(Karachi) US President Donald Trump has warned Iran that if it tried to hit an American base or citizen then US will hit it harder than before.

In a tweet on Sunday, the US president said, “The United States just spent two trillion dollars on Military equipment. We are the biggest and by far the best in the world.”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213689342272659456

He added, “If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way…and without hesitation!”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213684819537932293

Trump said that Iran attacked them and they responded in retaliation. “If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before!”

https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1213593975732527112

He threatened to hit 52 Iranian sites “very hard” if Iran attacks Americans or US assets.

Iran, Trump wrote, “is talking very boldly about targeting certain USA assets” in revenge for Soleimani’s death. Trump said the United States has “targeted 52 Iranian sites” and that some were “at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD.”

On Saturday evening, a rocket fell inside Baghdad’s heavily fortified Green Zone near the US Embassy, another hit the nearby Jadriya neighborhood and two more were fired at the Balad air base north of the city, but no one was killed, Iraq’s military said. There was no immediate claim of responsibility.

Trump referenced an unusually specific number of potential Iranian targets after a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards commander had also mentioned a specific number of American targets – 35 of them – for possible retaliatory attacks in response to Soleimani’s killing.

Iran will punish Americans wherever they are within reach of the Islamic Republic in retaliation for the killing of military commander Qassem Soleimani, Tasnim news agency quoted the senior Revolutionary Guards commander as saying.

General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, the commander of the Guards in the southern province of Kerman, raised the prospect of possible attacks on ships in the Gulf.

Iran reserved the right to take revenge against the United States for the death of Soleimani, he said in comments.