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Even before a recent U.S. airstrike wiped out three Iranian nuclear facilities, the aggressive Islamist government of Iran had been making death threats and planning assassinations on American soil.
U.S. authorities consider Iran as the primary sponsor of terrorism globally. The FBI has reported that Iran has falsely imprisoned Americans on its soil and targeted and even executed dissidents outside its borders.
President Donald Trump declared that Iran’s nuclear enrichment sites were completely destroyed by American stealth bombers. Trump emphasized that Iran, known as the bully of the Middle East, must now seek peace. He warned of the possibility of future attacks being more destructive and simpler if Iran refuses to cooperate.
Manssor Arbabsiar was sentenced to 25 years in prison for his role in a conspiracy to kill the Saudi ambassador to the U.S. (Nueces County Sheriff’s Office)
With $100,000 from Iran’s Quds Force, the Iranian military division run by Soleimani, Arbabsiar tried to hire an assassin from a Mexican drug cartel who was actually a DEA informant.
Iranian Big. Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, head of the country’s “Aerospace Force,” had called for the deaths of Trump, former U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and other U.S. officials in the aftermath of Soleimani’s death. He was one of several high-ranking Iranian leaders killed in Israeli airstrikes last week.
Federal prosecutors have also blamed Iranian agents for cybercrimes, including attacks on presidential campaigns from both parties.
On Monday, Iran fired missiles toward the U.S.-run Al Udeid Air Base in Qatar – the Pentagon’s largest military installation in the Middle East.
None of them reached the base, Fox News reported.
Fox News’ Liz Friden and Emma Colton contributed to this report.
