Khamenei Wants to Put Iran’s Stamp on Reprisal for U.S. Killing of Top General

伊朗公开宣称要报复美国,而且是直接以伊朗的部队。
做这个姿态的声明并不奇怪,看后面行动。

In the tense hours following the American killing of a top Iranian military commander, the country’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, made a rare appearance at a meeting of the government’s National Security Council to lay down the parameters for any retaliation. It must be a direct and proportional attack on American interests, he said, openly carried out by Iranian forces themselves, three Iranians familiar with the meeting said Monday.

It was a startling departure for the Iranian leadership. Since the establishment of the Islamic Republic in 1979, Tehran had almost always cloaked its attacks behind the actions of proxies it had cultivated around the region. But in the fury generated by the killing of the military commander, Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, a close ally and personal friend of the supreme leader, the ayatollah was willing to cast aside those traditional cautions.

Source: Khamenei Wants to Put Iran’s Stamp on Reprisal for U.S. Killing of Top General – The New York Times