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Friday, March 20, 2026
Iran threatens to target Israeli, US officials, even when vacationing in ‘tourist and entertainment centers’
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Mourners bid farewell to the bodies of Iran's slain intelligence minister Esmail Khatib and his family during their funeral after the weekly Friday noon prayers in Tehran on March 20, 2026. (Photo by AFP)
Iran’s military threatens to hunt down officials and army commanders from the United States and Israel, even while they are vacationing or visiting entertainment centres.
“We are watching your cowardly officials and commanders, pilots and wicked soldiers,” armed forces spokesman Abolfazl Shekarchi says, quoted by state TV.
“From now on, based on the information we have on you, the promenades, resorts and tourist and entertainment centres in the world will not be safe for you either.”
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