On Saturday, 4 January 2020 American President Donald Trump said that if Iran retaliated for the assassination of General Qasem Soleimani, "the United States will hit 52 Iranian sites, some at a very high level and important to Iran and the Iranian culture, very fast and very hard." The threat was widely described as a "pretty clear promise of a war crime" and was condemned by the international community as well as other American politicians. However, on Sunday, Donald Trump renewed the threat, and said "They're allowed to kill our people, ...and we're not allowed to touch their cultural sites?