Iran Responds to U.S. Threats of Military Aggression

U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Iran on March 30 with bombing and secondary tariffs if the government did not agree with U.S. demands over what is called its nuclear program. The previous week Iran responded through Oman to a letter from Trump demanding Tehran agree to a new nuclear deal. It wrote that its policy is to not engage in direct negotiations with the United States while under its maximum pressure campaign and military threats.

Trump responded through a telephone interview with NBC. "If they don't make a deal, there will be bombing," Trump said. "It will be bombing the likes of which they have never seen before," he said. "There's a chance that if they don't make a deal, that I will do secondary tariffs on them like I did four years ago," he added.

Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baghaei said U.S. President Trump's open threat of "bombing" the country is an affront to global peace and security. "An open threat of 'bombing' by a Head of State against Iran is a shocking affront to the very essence of International Peace and Security," Baghaei wrote.

A high-ranking commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) also warned that the U.S. forces should avoid "throwing stones at others." Brigadier General Amir Ali Hajizadeh, commander of the IRGC's Aerospace Division said "The Americans have 10 [military] bases in the region, particularly around Iran and 50,000 troops based in there. This means they are sitting in a glass house; and when one sits in a glass house, one does not throw stones at others."

(Reuters, Press TV)

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