The web site of Iran’s supreme chief Ayatollah Khamenei has revealed an animated video that seems to indicate a robotic calling in a drone strike to assassinate US president Donald Trump.
The animated video was a part of a contest to mark the anniversary from the killing of Iranian Normal Qassem Soleiman on January 3 2020 from an American drone strike in Baghdad.
Titled ‘Revenge is inevitable’, the video seems to indicate Trump on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, being focused in a drone strike.
The video exhibits Trump, on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, being focused in a drone strike
Ayatollah Khamenei’s web site publishes animated video of operation to assassinate Trump
The video mirrored a propaganda poster final yr additionally exhibiting Mr. Trump on a golf course, calling for revenge for Normal Soleimani’s killing.
Earlier this month, Iran’s hard-line President Ebrahim Raisi demanded Mr Trump be ‘prosecuted and killed’.
‘If not, I am telling all American leaders, do not doubt that the hand of revenge will come out of the sleeves of ummah,’ Mr Raisi mentioned, referring to the worldwide neighborhood of Muslims.
The video, posted on Wednesday, opens with a picture of what’s speculated to be Trump’s home in Palm Seaside.
An American flag will be seen on the golf course the place Trump, who’s sporting a MAGA cap, is standing with 4 different males.
The video immediately cuts to a small remote-controlled car which has a digital camera on it. It then cuts to a drone operator in an workplace stuffed with screens following the car.
The drone operator, who has a photograph of Soleimani subsequent to his display, then hacks into a close-by CCTV digital camera and a message pops up saying ‘entry granting’ – that means the remote-controlled car can transfer with out being seen.
The video is revealed on the 2nd yr anniversary from the killing of Iranian Normal Qassem Soleimani
The video then exhibits aerial footage of a drone because it approaches Trump’s Mar-a-Lago whereas the car strikes in on the previous President on the golf course.
The drone operator then manages to hack into Trump’s cellphone and one other man’s cellphone, and a message seems which reads: ‘Soleimani’s assassin and the one who gave the order can pay the worth’.
The drone then flies straight over Trump and a inexperienced field seems on the display across the former President as he reads the message on his cellphone.
The video then immediately cuts to a black display with a message with reads: ‘Revenge is particular’.
The video exhibits Mr Trump, on the golf course at Mar-a-Lago, Florida, being focused in a drone strike
Khamenei, in a press release accompanying the video posted on his web site, mentioned the video was launched ‘on the eve of the second anniversary of the martyrdom of Normal Haj Qasem Soleimani and the accompanying martyrs primarily based on the statements of Ayatollah Khamenei about Martyr Soleimani’.
Khamenei is quoted as telling Soleimani’s household: ‘Martyr Soleimani is everlasting, he’s alive endlessly.
‘Those that martyred him – Trump and his ilk – are within the dustbin of historical past and might be forgotten within the dustbin of historical past, however he’s alive endlessly.
‘The martyr is like this and his enemies might be misplaced and buried. In fact, God prepared, they are going to be misplaced and buried after they pay the worth for his or her worldliness.’
Iran launched one other faux propaganda video final yr in Might which depicts the United States Capitol being blown up by a missile and Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards ‘liberating’ Jerusalem.
The Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) broadcast the video on Iranian state-run tv earlier than a televised speech to the nation by Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei.
The video opens with armed IRGC troops marching in formation. Within the subsequent shot a missile is seen being launched at an undisclosed location, following by the sight of the US Capitol imploding in a fiery blaze.
Moments later, Iranian clerics are seen strolling towards Jerusalem, the holy metropolis on the crux of the Israel-Palestine dispute.
Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards launched a chilling propaganda video which depicts america Capitol being blown up
The Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) broadcast the video on Iranian state-run tv on Sunday earlier than a televised speech to the nation by Supreme Chief Ali Khamenei. The video exhibits armed IRGC troops marching in formation
Based on Kasra Aarabi, an analyst on the Tony Blair Institute, the music enjoying within the background of the video is a Shia Islamist tune.
The lyrics to the tune describe the Capitol as a ‘palace of oppression’ which was ‘destroyed by the Alavi (Imam Ali’s) IRGC, and the excellent news of the liberation of Quds (Jerusalem) arrives from Iran.’
Imam Ali is taken into account a central determine of Shi’ite Islam. Shi’ites view Ali because the rightful inheritor to the Prophet Muhammad whereas Sunnis take into account him as fourth in line, prompting the Sunni-Shi’ite break up inside Islam.
Senator Pat Toomey, a Republican from Pennsylvania, reacted to the video by demanding that the Biden administration resist Iranian calls to raise sanctions put in place by the Trump administration.
Within the subsequent picture, a missile is seen being launched at an undisclosed location
Moments later, Iranian clerics are seen strolling towards Jerusalem, the holy metropolis on the crux of the Israel-Palestine dispute
‘Final week, Iran’s chief diplomat allegedly admitted the IRGC calls the photographs in Tehran,’ the senator tweeted in Might final yr.
‘Now, Iran releases a faux video of the IRGC blowing up our Capitol.
‘The Biden admin’s precedence must be making certain Iran can not perform such an assault, not capitulating by eradicating sanctions.’
After the video aired, Iran’s supreme chief on Sunday criticized the nation’s international minister, who mentioned in a leaked interview that the elite Revolutionary Guards had extra affect in international affairs and Tehran’s nuclear file than him.
Within the interview, aired by the London-based Iran Worldwide Persian-language satellite tv for pc information channel final week, Overseas Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif mentioned he had ‘zero’ affect over Iran’s international coverage.
In that very same leaked audio, Zarif revealed that he was informed by former Secretary of State John Kerry that Israel carried out strikes towards Iranian targets in Syria.
That revelation prompted Republicans to demand that Kerry resign as Biden’s local weather envoy. Kerry denied revealing any delicate details about Israeli navy operations.
The late Revolutionary Guards commander Qassim Soleimani (centre in 2016) was killed in a drone strike
Chief of the Guards’ clandestine abroad Quds Pressure, Soleimani was a pivotal determine who constructed up Iran’s community of proxy armies throughout the Center East earlier than he was killed by the U.S. in a drone strike in 2020 – an assault which on the time introduced the U.S. and Iran to the brink of conflict.
Iran retaliated with a rocket assault on an Iraqi air base the place U.S. forces had been stationed. Hours later, Iranian forces shot down a Ukrainian passenger airliner taking off from Tehran. Days later, Iran’s Guards admitted that the airplane had been shot ‘mistakenly’.
Final yr, Iran has requested Interpol to concern a ‘purple discover’ for the arrest of President Trump and 47 different U.S. officers, citing the focused killing a yr in the past of Qassem Soleimani, a strong Iranian basic.
Interpol responded that it doesn’t take into account requests for a purple discover which can be motivated by political or navy considerations.
It is the second time Iran has requested for assist in detaining the US president. The primary US President that Iran has requested to be arrested was Ronald Reagan.
This can be a provocative transfer amid ongoing worldwide talks in Geneva in regards to the Iranian nuclear programme.
Who was Qasem Soleimani, Iranian basic killed by US airstrike?
Revolutionary Guards commander Qasem Soleimani, who was killed Friday in a US strike, was one of the crucial fashionable figures in Iran and seen as a lethal adversary by America and its allies.
Normal Soleimani, who headed the exterior operations Quds Pressure for the Guards, had wielded his regional clout publicly since 2018 when it was revealed that he had direct involvement in top-level talks over the formation of Iraq’s authorities.
It was no shock on the time for a person who has been on the centre of power-broking within the area for 20 years.
Soleimani has been out and in of Baghdad ever since, most not too long ago final month as events sought to type a brand new authorities.
The place as soon as he saved to the shadows, Soleimani has lately turn out to be an unlikely celeb in Iran — replete with an enormous following on Instagram.
Revolutionary Guard Normal Qassem Soleimani (heart) ‘was personally the preferred regime determine in Iran’ mentioned one professional on Center East affairs
His profile rose immediately when he was pushed ahead as the general public face of Iran’s intervention within the Syrian battle from 2013, showing in battlefield pictures, documentaries — and even being featured in a music video and animated movie.
In a uncommon interview aired on Iranian state tv in October, he mentioned he was in Lebanon throughout the 2006 Israel-Hezbollah conflict to supervise the battle.
To his followers and enemies alike, Soleimani was the important thing architect of Iran’s regional affect, main the battle towards jihadist forces and lengthening Iran’s diplomatic heft in Iraq, Syria and past.
‘To Center Jap Shiites, he’s James Bond, Erwin Rommel and Girl Gaga rolled into one,’ wrote former CIA analyst Kenneth Pollack in a profile for Time’s 100 most influential folks in 2017.
‘To the West, he’s… liable for exporting Iran’s Islamic revolution, supporting terrorists, subverting pro-Western governments and waging Iran’s international wars,’ Pollack added.
With Iran roiled by protests and financial issues at residence, and the US as soon as once more mounting stress from the skin, some Iranians had even referred to as for Soleimani to enter home politics.
Whereas he has dismissed rumours he would possibly sooner or later run for president, the final has performed a decisive function within the politics of Iran’s neighbour, Iraq.
In addition to talks on forming a authorities, he was pivotal in pressuring Iraq’s Kurds to desert their plans for independence after an ill-judged referendum final September.
Soleimani was key navy decision-maker in Iran
His affect has deep roots, since Soleimani was already main the Quds Pressure when the US invaded Afghanistan in 2001.
‘My Iranian interlocutors on Afghanistan made clear that whereas they saved the international ministry knowledgeable, in the end it was Normal Soleimani that might make the selections,’ former US ambassador to Iraq Ryan Crocker informed the BBC in 2013.
His agency however quiet presence play completely to the Iranian penchant for dignified humility.
‘He sits over there on the opposite facet of room, by himself, in a really quiet means. Would not communicate, does not remark, simply sits and listens. And so in fact everyone seems to be considering solely about him,’ a senior Iraqi official informed the New Yorker for a protracted profile of Soleimani.
A survey revealed in 2018 by IranPoll and the College of Maryland — one of many few thought-about dependable by analysts — discovered Soleimani had a reputation ranking of 83 p.c, beating President Hassan Rouhani and Overseas Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif.
Western leaders noticed him as central to Iran’s ties with militia teams together with Lebanon’s Hezbollah and Palestinian Hamas.
A part of his attraction was the suggestion he would possibly bridge Iran’s bitter social divides on points akin to its strict ‘hijab’ clothes guidelines.
‘If we continuously use phrases akin to ‘dangerous hijab’ and ‘good hijab’, reformist or conservative… then who’s left?’ Soleimani mentioned in a speech to mark World Mosque Day in 2017.
‘They’re all folks. Are all of your youngsters non secular? Is all people the identical? No, however the father attracts all of them.’
-AFP
