As Congress debates whether to support President Obama’s call for a  limited strike against Syria for the alleged use of chemical weapons,  Iran is vowing to back Bashar al-Assad’s regime to the hilt and threatening to unleash terrorism should the U.S. strike.
Qassem Soleimani, the head of Iran’s Quds Forces, Wednesday told the  Assembly of Experts — the body that chooses the supreme leader — that  “[w]e will support Syria to the end.”
And in an unprecedented statement, a former Iranian official has warned  of mass abductions and brutal killings of American citizens around the  world and the rape and killing of one of Obama’s daughters should the  United States attack Syria.
“Hopefully Obama will be pigheaded enough to attack Syria, and then we  will see the … loss of U.S. interests [through terrorist attacks],” he  threatened. “In just 21 hours [after the attack on Syria], a family  member of every U.S. minister [department  secretary], U.S. ambassadors, U.S. military commanders around the world  will be abducted. And then 18 hours later, videos of their amputation  will be spread [around the world].”
A similar act was committed in a video of the torture of William  Buckley, a CIA station chief who was abducted in Beirut in 1984 and  later killed by Hezbollah on Iran’s order. That video was dropped off at  the U.S. Embassy in Athens. Former CIA Director William Casey  later described what he saw in the video: “They had done more than ruin  his body. His eyes made it clear his mind had been played with. It was  horrific, medieval and barbarous.”

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