The daughter of the slain Iranian general Qasem Soleimani addressed a funeral ceremony in Iran, where she said that her father's "martyrdom" will bring a "dark day" to the US and Israel, according to Iranian state TV.In particular, Iran had harsh words for Israel which it sees as the true instigator of Soleimani's assassination as well as reconfirming that the U.S. would ultimately have to leave the Middle East:
"Crazy Trump, don't think that everything is over with my father's martyrdom," Zeinab Soleimani added.
Earlier, Mohsen Rezaei, secretary of Iran's Expediency Discernment Council and former chief of the country's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC), has warned of far-reaching repercussions from a possible US strike on the Islamic Republic.
"In response to Trump, who had said that Washington will attack Iran if it takes revenge, Rezaei said "be sure that in such a case we will completely level [Israel's port city of] Haifa and key Israeli targets", on Sunday.An unidentified eulogist purportedly offered an $80M bounty for Trump's head, Iran repudiates the last of its JPCOA nuclear commitments:
Rezaei touted a "massive movement" that had taken shape in Iran in response to Soleimani's murder, pledging that Iran will be "firmly fighting the Americans" until it achieves "complete US withdrawal from the region".
"The whole world should know that that the Americans will be removed from the region soon," he pointed out. Trump Pledges 'Disproportionate' Response to Iran
His remarks come after President Donald Trump warned that the US would launch a "disproportionate" military response to Iran if it conducts a retaliatory strike against Washington.
According to POTUS, the US is "targeting" 52 Iranian military and cultural sites and will strike "very fast and very hard" if Tehran attacks Americans or US assets. Trump explained that the targets represented 52 Americans who were held hostage in Iran in 1979.
According to Al Arabiya, the prize was announced by an unnamed eulogist at the funeral procession for Gen. Qassem Soleimani, broadcast live on Iran's Channel One from the Iranian city of Mashhad on Sunday.
He told the crowd that if every Iranian chips in $1, the total sum would equal $80 million.
"And we would give this $80 million, on our own behalf, as a gift to anyone who brings [us] the head of the person who ordered the murder of the grand figure of our revolution," the eulogist said, referring to Soleimani.
"Anyone who brings us the head of this yellow-haired lunatic, we would give him $80million on behalf of the great Iranian nation. Chant if you agree," he added, as the crowd cheered on.
Although the proposal was aired on state television, the government stopped short of floating a similar one - which would be tantamount to a declaration of war.
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The Islamic Republic on Sunday upped the ante by announcing a rollback of its remaining obligations under the 2015 nuclear deal. The country started curbing its commitments in May 2019, precisely a year after Donald Trump withdrew from the pact claiming it wasn't tough enough on Iran.
The Soleimani gambit has also backfired in Iraq, where the parliament adopted a resolution requiring the government to force the withdrawal of more than 5,000 US troops from the country.
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