•US finds it unbearable to accept Iran’s victory – President Hassan Rouhani
•109 US troops diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries after Iran strike – Pentagon
Thousands of Iranians poured into the streets of Tehran on Tuesday to commemorate the 41st anniversary of the Islamic revolution, against a backdrop of escalating tensions with the US State TV showed video footage of rallies in at least half a dozen cities outside the capital, including Mashhad, Ahvaz and Kerman, with people holding signs that read, “Death to America’’ and “Death to Israel’’.
Iran almost got into a full-blown conflict with the US after a US drone strike killed top Iranian military commander Qassem Soleimani in Baghdad on Jan. 3, prompting Iran to retaliate with a missile barrage against a US base in Iraq days later.
Meanwhile, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said on Tuesday that the United States finds it “unbearable” that the Islamic Revolution remains in place 41 years after bringing down its ally the shah.
“It is unbearable for the United States to accept the victory of a great nation and that a superpower has been driven out of this land,” Rouhani told a rally in Tehran marking the anniversary of the ouster of the shah and establishment of the Islamic republic in 1979.
The Pentagon said yesterday that the number of U.S. service members diagnosed with traumatic brain injuries has shot up to more than 100, as more troops suffer the aftereffects of the Iranian ballistic missile attack early last month in Iraq.
The department said the latest total is 109 military members who have been treated for mild TBI, a significant increase over the 64 reported a little over a week ago.
