Iran sent mixed signals Thursday as tensions with the US appeared to ease, with President Hassan Rouhani warning of a "very dangerous response" if the US makes "another mistake" and a senior commander vowing "harsher revenge" for the killing of a top Iranian general.
A senior Iranian commander said Iran's missile attacks on US targets in Iraq did not aim to kill American soldiers but sought to damage Washington's "military machine" and were the start of a series of attacks across the region, state television reported.
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Amirali Hajizadeh, the head of the Revolutionary Guards Aerospace Force, also said the "appropriate revenge" for the US killing of prominent Iranian General Qassem Soleimani was to expel US forces from the Middle East, state TV said.
He also said Iran had hundreds of missiles at the ready and when Tehran launched missiles on Wednesday it had used "cyberattacks to disable [US] plane and drone navigation systems."
Hajizadeh said that "there were presumably dozens killed or injured and had we wanted we could have killed 600 American service members." He further warned that "if the US continues with this conflict, we will kill 4,000 to 5,000 American troops," referring to the supposed number of soldiers in the region.
