Iranian military adviser: No American military staff or sites 'will be safe'

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last updated 5 January 2020

The back and forth continues.

President Trump on Saturday warned Iran that the United States has chosen 52 targets for retaliatory attacks should Tehran react militarily to Washington's airstrike that killed Iranian Maj. Gen. Qassem Soleimani earlier this week. The targets, Trump tweeted, include some sites in Iran that are "important" to the nation's culture.

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Dehghan did maintain Tehran still wants to avoid full-fledged war between the two countries, but said it was Washington's responsibility not to escalate things further. "The only thing that can end this period of war is for the Americans to receive a blow that is equal to the blow they have inflicted," he said, referring to the Soleimani strike. "Afterward they should not seek a new cycle." Read more at CNN and NBC News.

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Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.

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