The killing of Iranian Army Commander, Qasem Soleimani by the United States has triggered more hostilities and is gradually plunging both countries into a serious diplomatic crisis.
Iranians have chanted “Death to America” while the Iranian government has pledged to “revenge” US over the killing and in return has placed an $80 million bounty on President Donald Trump’s head as well as to continue uranium enrichment.
The US, in anger, has vowed to hit Iran’s 52 cultural sites if its citizens or assets are attacked by Iran.
However, “Iran has 80 million inhabitants. Based on the Iranian population, we want to raise $80 million (£61million) which is a reward for those who get close to the head of President Trump,” it was announced by en24.
During the televised funeral, official state broadcasters said one US dollar would be tabled for every Iranian in the country, with the cash going to whoever kills the US President.
Tehran vowed revenge at the heart of the US after the Quds Force general was killed by a Reaper drone last Friday at Baghdad Airport.
The attack took long-running hostilities between Washington and Tehran into uncharted territory and raised the spectre of a wider conflict in the Middle East.
In what appeared as a retaliatory attack and in solidarity with Iran, Al-Shabaab terrorists staged a pre-dawn attack on the US Africa Command military base in Kenya on Sunday and killed two American contractors and a US service member.
According to US Military officials, two “Department of Defense members” were wounded and six contractor-operated civilian aircraft suffered damage in the attack that was repelled by the US Military as the terrorists tried to take down the base.
US Africa Command said the attack on the Manda Bay compound, which U.S. forces have used to train African military and protect U.S. interests in the are, resulted in the killing of 5 Al-Shabab terrorists, and involved “indirect and small arms fire.”
“After an initial penetration of the perimeter, Kenya Defense Forces and U.S. Africa Command repelled the al-Shabab attack,” the Pentagon statement said.
Al-Shabab, a terror group with links to ISIS and based in Somalia, claimed responsibility for the attack. The latest attack came just over a week after an al-Shabab truck bomb in Mogadishu, Somalia, killed at least 79 people and U.S. airstrikes killed seven Al-Shabaab fighters in response.
