Amid fears of possible US airstrikes on Iran, the United Kingdom (UK) is withdrawing some personnel from an air base in Qatar. and The newspaper informed about it on Wednesday.
Meanwhile, some US personnel have been instructed to leave the US military base Al Udeid in Qatar, the news agency said. AFPciting two diplomatic sources.
At the same time, United States The embassy in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday advised its employees to exercise caution and avoid all military locations.
The clashes between Washington and Tehran, which have lacked formal diplomatic ties since the 1979 Islamic revolution, follow President Donald Trump’s warning that Iran she could face consequences for her suppression of dissent.
During a CBS News broadcast on Tuesday, Trump said the United States would intervene if the Iranian government initiates the execution of protesters.
“If they do something like that, we will take very strong action,” he said.
Iran is ready to retaliate
Responding to Trump’s threats, the commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) said on Wednesday that Iran remains ready to retaliate “decisively” against its adversaries Israel and the United States.
The Guards are “at the height of readiness to respond decisively to the enemy’s miscalculation,” IRGC commander Mohammad Pakpour said in a written statement quoted by state television.
Pakpour blamed foreign leaders for the protests across the republic, accusing US President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being “killers of Iran’s youth”.
Earlier in June, Iran launched an attack on the Al Udeid facility in retaliation for US military strikes targeting Iran’s nuclear infrastructure.
Ali Shamkhani, a senior adviser to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, warned Trump that the attack on the base served as evidence of “Iran’s will and ability to respond to any attack.”
A human rights organization claimed that at least 3,428 people were killed during the violent demonstrations AFP message.
Under the guise of a five-day digital blackout, Iranian leaders are carrying out the harshest crackdown in decades against protests that fundamentally challenge the clerical ruling system, rights activists said.
The head of the judiciary promised speedy trials for those detained during the unrest, as international fears grew that the state would use the death penalty as a method of intimidation.
In Tehran, the government organized a funeral for more than 100 security personnel and various “martyrs” lost in the clashes, which officials say were used by protesters to carry out “terrorist acts”.
