Donald Trump threatens to strike back at Iran with ‘disproportionate’ force of $2trillion arsenal if it hits US targets
DONALD Trump has warned he will strike Iran with "disproportionate" force if it attacks US targets.
The threat comes after Iran put an $80million bounty on his head and said it had identified "35 US targets" it could hit in retaliation for the killing of a top general in a US airstrike on Friday.
The President vowed to unleash $2 trillion worth of new military equipment if Iran targets US bases.
He tweeted: "These media posts will serve as notification to the United States Congress that should Iran strike any US person or target, the United States will quickly and fully strike back and perhaps in a disproportionate manner.
"Such legal notice is not required, but is given nevertheless."
An Trumps Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned more Iranian leaders would be wiped out.
He said the Obama administration had "tried to challenge and attack everybody who was running around with an AK-47 or a piece of indirect artillery."
He added: "We've made a very different approach. We've told the Iranian regime, 'Enough. You can't get away with using proxy forces and think your homeland will be safe and secure.'
"We're going to respond against the actual decision-makers, the people who are causing this threat from the Islamic Republic of Iran."
'ENOUGH'
Trump fired the warning after US Senator Elizabeth Warren accused him of ordering the air strikes on Iran and fueling discord in the Middle East to distract from his impeachment trial.
The 2020 presidential candidate suggested that Trump may be leading America into war in a fury over his impending impeachment trial.
She said: "We know that Donald Trump is very upset about this upcoming impeachment trial. But look what he's doing now. He is taking us to the edge of war."
Qasem Soleimani, the former head of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards' elite Quds Force, was killed in a targeted drone strike as he left Baghdad Airport in a convoy with a number of other military officials.
The strike came after the US embassy in Iraqi capital Baghdad was attacked by mobs wearing the uniform of the Hashd, an umbrella group of Iranian-backed militia operating within Iraq.
Hours after the strike, rockets were again fired near the embassy and at an airbase housing American troops.
'WE WILL ACT WITHOUT HESITATION'
Iranian general Gholamali Abuhamzeh later said that some 35 "vital American targets", including destroyers and warships near the Persian Gulf and Tel Aviv, were "within out reach".
Iranian president Hassan Rouhani had earlier also told Soleimani's daughter that Iran would "avenge [her father's] blood".
Responding to the threats this morning, President Trump tweeted: "The United States just spent Two Trillion Dollars on Military Equipment.
"We are the biggest and by far the BEST in the World!
"If Iran attacks an American Base, or any American, we will be sending some of that brand new beautiful equipment their way...and without hesitation!"
Two trillions dollars is the equivalent of around £1.5 trillion and around 10 percent of US GDP.
Trump also wrote: "They attacked us, & we hit back.
"If they attack again, which I would strongly advise them not to do, we will hit them harder than they have ever been hit before!"
Major General Abdolrahim Mousavi, commander-in-chief of the Iranian army, responded to earlier threats by saying he doubted the US had the "courage to initiate" a conflict.
THOUSANDS ATTEND FUNERAL PROCESSIONS
Tens of thousands filled the streets of the Iranian city of Ahvaz chanting "Death to America" as Soleimani's body arrived there from Iraq.
Soleimani oversaw forces that, among other things, have in recent years targeted civilians during conflicts in Syria and Iraq, but is viewed by some in Iran as a hero for his role in the Iran-Iraq war in the 1980s.
Footage showed mourners holding portraits of Soleimani and waving Iranian flags as they marched.
Soleimani's body will be taken to the cities of Mashhad, Tehran, and Qom for public mourning processions before being returned to his hometown of Kerman for burial on Tuesday.
NATO has temporarily suspended training of Iraqi security forces and armed forces in the region amid fears of an escalating conflict.
Acting spokesman Dylan White said in a statement: "The safety of our personnel in Iraq is paramount.
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"We continue to take all precautions necessary.
"NATO's mission is continuing, but training activities are temporarily suspended."
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