During the Week, Iranian Embassy: "If the US Retaliates, It Will Face the Most Powerful Revenge"

[Asia Economy Beijing=Special Correspondent Park Sun-mi] On the 8th (local time), Iran launched a missile attack on a U.S. military airbase in Iraq, where U.S. troops are stationed, and warned that if the U.S. retaliates, it will carry out even stronger reprisals.

The Iranian Embassy in China stated on its official Weibo account on the 8th, "In revenge for the killing of the Iranian commander, missiles were fired at the U.S. base stationed in Iraq," adding, "If the U.S. retaliates, it will surely face the strongest retaliation." It also wrote, "The end of the evil force called the United States in West Asia has already begun." Along with the statement implying strong retaliation, the Iranian Embassy also displayed the Iranian national flag.

On the 8th, just five days after Qasem Soleimani, commander of the Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, was killed by a U.S. airstrike at Baghdad Airport on the 3rd, Iran launched a barrage of ballistic missiles targeting U.S. military bases in Iraq.

Mohammad Javad Zarif, Iran's Foreign Minister, described the missile attack as "a defensive and proportional response to the cowardly attack on our people and senior military officials by the (U.S.) base."