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Iran has issued a threat to the US if it decides to launch military strikes: ‘You’ll reap the whirlwind’.
An enormous mural has been unveiled in Revolution Square in central Tehran emblazoned with the flight deck of a damaged aircraft carrier within the type of the American flag.
But it surely carries the ominous message: ‘When you sow the wind, you’ll reap the whirlwind’.
It appears to be a reference to the arrival of the USS Abraham Lincoln and guided-missile destroyers arriving within the region in the approaching days.
Metro reported how the nation’s Supreme Leader, Ali Khamenei, has already been moved to a high-security underground bunker.
Last week, US president Donald Trump said the warships were being moved ‘just in case’ he desires to take motion following deadly protests and executions.
Teheran has been gripped by protests throughout January, with 1000’s killed in unrest over the collapse of the Iranian currency.
Iranian authorities claim around 3,000 people were killed but US human rights group HRANA says the number is around 4,600.
Trump said on Thursday: ‘We’ve a large fleet heading In that direction and perhaps we won’t must use it.’
A senior Iranian official, talking to Reuters under the condition of anonymity, warned any attack against Iran could be seen as ‘all-out war against us’.
In London, a former Iranian political prisoner is holding a hunger strike outside the US embassy until Trump unleashes military strikes.
Nasrin Roshan, 62, is refusing to eat and is looking on the US to ‘act now’ and to ‘stop fidgeting with the Iranian people’.
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