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US will hit 52 Iranian sites 'very fast, hard' if Tehran retaliates: Trump

Donald Trump defends drone strike assassination of top Iranian general Qassem Soleimani in Iraq.

Qassem Soleimani, Iran
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File Photo: Qassem Soleimani attending an annual rally commemorating the anniversary of the 1979 Islamic revolution

AFP | PTI Washington
President Donald Trump has warned that the US is targeting 52 sites in Iran and will hit them "very fast and very hard" if the Islamic republic attacks American personnel or assets.

In a tweet defending Friday's drone strike assassination of a top Iranian general in Iraq, 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.

Trump said on Saturday some of these sites are "at a very high level & important to Iran & the Iranian culture, and those targets, and Iran itself, WILL BE