“They should know that the language of threats has never worked with Iran”, Rouhani said in a public speech broadcast live on state TV. He called the new United States administration “a problem” and said Iran will strongly answer any threat from its enemies. Gen. Hossein Ashtari announced that no suspicious activity was reported during rallies across the country.
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Takfiri is a term used by Iranian officials to describe militant Sunni Muslim fundamentalists like the Islamic State group.
Velayati said the US effort to make Iran stop its missile program with military threats amounted to “worthless fantasies”.
On 1 February 1979 Ayatollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic revolution, returned to Tehran from exile in Paris, two weeks after the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, had fled Iran.
Protestors came together to trample American and Araeli flags in honor of the Islamic Revolution. “The amateur and irrational policies of the new U.S. administration will change nothing about the principles of Iranian politics”, it read.
Iran’s Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan denied U.S. media reports this week that it had conducted a second missile test.
Chanting “Death to America”, thousands of Iranians on Friday rallied across the country as President Hassan Rouhani said Tehran won’t tolerate USA “war-mongering”.
“Today’s rally shows that the government does not want any confrontation with the US”, said analyst Farshad Ghorbanpour.
A USA official tells CNN that Iran fired a defensive surface-to-air missile (SAM) on Wednesday.
Many observers had expected Iranian leaders to take aim at President Trump during rallies, however, that was not the case.
Sorraya Khalili, a 44-year-old hairstylist, said she was out to support the government and object to U.S. bullying of Iran.
Mr Trump has criticised a nuclear deal reached between Iran, the United States and other major powers in 2015 aimed at curbing the country’s nuclear work. Iranians carried “Death to America” banners and burned effigies of President Trump, as others stepped on his picture.
In May, 2016, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled the transfer of almost two billion U.S. dollars to the American victims of terrorist attacks, including the 1983 truck bombing of a Marine Corps barracks in Beirut, Lebanon.
Trump’s Central Intelligence Agency director Mike Pompeo continues to demand that the full context of the deal with Iran be revealed and made public.
He further said that Iran’s progress could not be halted despite all hindrances and that this spoke volumes about the courage of the Iranian people. Trump’s travel ban is being challenged in United States courts. Nevertheless, when Trump’s triggered, there doesn’t seem to be any stopping him, and reports have since circulated that his administration is considering designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a “terrorist organization”.
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The senior official warned that Trump’s decision to withdraw from the nuclear accord, which he promised while campaigning for the White House, would backfire.
