Iran has vowed to hit back at the US after general Qassem Soleimani was killed
Hezbollah group in Iraq has vowed to turn US airbases in the country 'to rubble'
Group's Lebanese leader said retaliation should focus on American military and civilians should not be targeted
Hezbollah leaders have vowed to turn US airbases in
Iraq 'to rubble' in retaliation for the airstrike which killed Qassem Soleimani last week.
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Kataib Hezbollah, an
Iran-backed militia at the centre of current tensions between Washington and Tehran, threatened attacks on American bases in Iraq after the country's parliament voted to expel foreign forces on Sunday.
Meanwhile Hassan Nasrallah, the Lebanese secretary-general of Hezbollah, said all US bases, all warships and every single soldier in the region is now a target.
Hassan Nasrallah, the secretary-general of Hezbollah, said all US bases, warships and every single soldier in the Middle East should be targeted in revenge for the death of Soleimani
Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-backed militia in Iraq, has threatened to reduce all US airbases in the country 'to rubble' to avenge Soleimani
Hezbollah leader says retaliation should not target American civilians
That message did not appear to have filtered through to Mohsen Rezai, former head of Iran's Revolutionary Guard and currently a high-ranking minister.
When asked what measures Iran should take if the US strikes a second time, Rezai said the Israeli cities of Haifa and Tel Aviv should be reduced 'to dust'.
His warning came after President Donald Trump warned on Saturday that the US would target 52 sites 'important to Iran & Iranian culture' and hit them 'very fast and very hard' if the Islamic republic attacked American personnel or assets.
In a saber-rattling tweet, Trump said 52 represents the number of Americans held hostage at the US embassy in Tehran for more than a year starting in late 1979.
Soleimani (pictured right with Nasrallah in one of the final images taken before his death) was killed Friday in an American drone strike
'Mr Trump, you tweeted that you will attack 52 targets in Iran?' Rezai was also quoted as saying by the semi-official ISNA news agency.
'You have said that you will attack again if Iran gets revenge? Be sure that Iran will turn Haifa and Israel's centres to dust in a way that Israel would be erased from the face of the earth,' he warned.
Trump's tweet also drew condemnation from Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif who responded on Twitter saying 'targeting cultural sites is a WAR CRIME'.
According to the UN's 1954 Hague Convention for the Protection of Cultural Property, it is a war crime to desecrate cultural sites in military action.
Meanwhile the head of the Guard's aerospace program, Gen. Amir Ali Hajizadeh, suggested Iran's response wouldn't stop with a single attack.
'Firing a couple of missiles, hitting a base or even killing Trump is not valuable enough to compensate for martyr Soleimani's blood,' Hajizadeh said on state TV.
'The only thing that can compensate for his blood is the complete removal of America from the region.'
Elsewhere, Iranian cleric Shahab Moradi told the IRIB Ofogh channel that it will be impossible for his country to hit back over Soleimani's death because America lacks real-life heroes, and only worships fictional ones such as SpongeBob Squarepants.
'Are we supposed to take out Spider-Man and SpongeBob? They don't have any heroes.
The general's daughter Zeinab Soleimani (pictured today) spoke to mourners during the funeral procession in Tehran and directly threatened an attack on U.S. forces in the region
'We have a country in front of us with a large population and a large landmass, but it doesn't have any heroes.
'All of their heroes are cartoon characters — they're all fictional.'
Soleimani, who spearheaded Iran's Middle East operations as commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps' Quds Force, was killed in a US drone strike Friday near Baghdad airport. He was 62.
The attack was ordered by Trump, who said the Quds commander had been planning an 'imminent' attack on US diplomats and forces in Iraq.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed 'severe revenge'.
Soleimani's daughter Zeinap also directly threatened an attack on U.S. forces in the region during his funeral service on Monday.
'The families of U.S. soldiers in the Middle East will spend their days waiting for death of their children,' she said to cheers.
Warning of a 'dark day' looming for the United States, she said: 'Crazy Trump, don't think that everything is over with my father's martyrdom.'
Meanwhile Iranian presidential Hesameddin Ashena shared a link to a Forbes article listing all of Trump's properties in New York, his hotels and resorts across America and golf courses in the US and Britain.
The list included the Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, where the president was when he ordered the hit on Soleimani, as well as the Trump International Hotels in Washington and Las Vegas and his New York Tower with its Fifth Avenue entrance.
Esmail Ghaani, Soleimani's replacement, also vowed that revenge 'will be taken' though refused to say what might happen next.
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