If there is anything amusing about l'affaire Soleimani, it is the bluster from both sides over the number of targets they vow to hit. After Soleimani was assassinated, Iranian General Gholamali Abuhamzeh, the commander of the Revolutionary Guards in the southern province of Kerman declared:
The Strait of Hormuz is a vital point for the West and a large number of American destroyers and warships cross there, some 35 US targets in the region as well as Tel Aviv are within our reach.
That one must have gotten under the flabby skin of Donald J. Trump, because he quickly abandoned his meatloaf and ice cream and furiously tweeted:
We have targeted 52 Iranian sites (representing the 52 American hostages taken by Iran many years ago), some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture. If Iran strikes any Americans, or American assets... Iran itself, WILL BE HIT VERY FAST AND VERY HARD.
Well, the Chairman of Iran's Parliament obviously could not let this blow to his nation's honor stand, so he upped the ante BIG TIME:
If they want to hit 52 sites of ours, we will hit a number of US targets that will be as many as the number of the verses (6,236) of the Holy Quran, and we will target 124,000 of them that stands equal to the number of 124,000 prophets.
So far Trump has not yet further raised the stakes, perhaps he is still trying to determine if there even are 124,001 targets in Iran. . .
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