U.S. President Donald Trump loomed his Iranian counterpart in a late Sunday evening Twitter post:
Trump tweet: To Iranian President Rouhani: Not till hell freezes over, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE Similar ti OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A Homeland THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & End. BE CAUTIOUS!
The tweet from the president follows Iranian President Hassan Rouhani cautioning the American director on Sunday about pursuing hostile policies against Tehran, pronouncing: “War with Iran is the mother of all wars.”
Still, he did not rule out peace between the two boonies.
“You are not in a position to incite the Iranian nation against Iran’s security and attracts,” Rouhani said, in an apparent reference to reports of efforts by Washington to destabilize Iran’s Islamic regime.
Ahead of Trump’s Twitter-posted threat, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo fired a rhetorical assault on Iran’s leaders on Sunday, comparing them to a “mafia” and positive unspecified backing for Iranians unhappy with their government.
Pompeo, in a California disquisition to a largely Iranian-American audience, dismissed Iranian Rouhani and Foreign Charg daffaires Mohammad Javad Zarif, who negotiated a nuclear deal with the Partnership States and five other countries, as “merely polished front men for the ayatollahs’ oecumenical con artistry.”
Trump withdrew in May from the 2015 nuclear accord drew to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
—Reuters gave to this report.