US forces to return home in coffins
Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah yesterday said the US military in the Middle East would pay the price for the killing of Iranian Major General Qassem Soleimani, warning that US soldiers and officers would return home in coffins.
In a speech marking the death of Soleimani, Nasrallah said responding to the killing was not only Iran’s responsibility but the responsibility of its allies too.
But US civilians should not be targeted, he said.
Founded by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards in 1982, Lebanese group Hezbollah is a critical part of an Iranian-backed regional military alliance.
“The American army is the one that killed them and it is the one that will pay the price,” Nasrallah said, although US civilians in the region “should not be touched” because this would serve the agenda of US President Donald Trump.
“When the coffins of American soldiers and officers begin to be transported ... to the United States, Trump and his administration will realise that they have really lost the region and will lose the elections,” Nasrallah said, referring to the 2020 US presidential vote.
Nasrallah said the killing marked a new chapter in the history of the Middle East. Attacks on the US military in the region would force US forces to withdraw “humiliated, defeated and in terror ... as they left in the past”, he said.
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