The new leader of Iran’s elite expeditionary force has vowed to expel the US from the Middle East as Tehran ramped up its rhetoric following the assassination of his predecessor Qassem Soleimani.
Crude prices on Monday surpassed $70 a barrel for the first time in more than three months as Washington warned of an increased threat to Middle Eastern oil and gas facilities following Soleimani’s death in US air strikes on Friday.
Brigadier General Esmail Ghaani told state television on Monday that Iran would take its revenge by “uprooting the US from the region” and “continuing the work of the martyr Soleimani as robustly as he did”. Asked to promise revenge, he said that “God is the main revenger” and “things will be done” to avenge Soleimani.
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