Esmail Ghaani is the brigadier general of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps who succeeded Qassem Soleimani as commander of Iran's Quds Force.
Today he threatened terror attacks within the US as revenge for Soleimani's assassination a year ago.
At a ceremony marking the first anniversary of Soleimani's death, Ghaani said that someone already in the US might take revenge on the perpetrators. "Our path is still the same, rest assured, there may even be people inside your house who will respond to your crime," he warned the US.
Yesterday, in a closed door session of the Iranian parliament, Ghaani explcitly threatened to assassinate US officials in revenge. He reportedly specified Donald Trump, the head of the CIA Gina Haspel, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and the Secretary of Defense, presumably Mark Esper who held that position a year ago.
Referring to the writer that the Ayatollah Khomeini had issued a fatwa death sentence against in 1989, Ghaani said that these targets should learn from Salman Rushdie how to survive in hiding if they want to live.
Will these explicit threats of terror attacks be condemned in the UN or by "human rights" organizations? I expect there will be little reaction.