Trump To Iran’s Rouhani: ‘Never, Ever Threaten the United States Again’
President Donald Trump escalated a war of words with Iranian counterpart Hassan Rouhani with a menacing tweet late Sunday.
In the nearly all-caps tweet, Trump directly warned the Iranian president to “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN,” adding that any new ones would bring “CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE.”
Trump’s tweet came hours after Rouhani’s own warning over the weekend, reported by Iranian state news agency IRNA, that Trump was playing “with the lion’s tail.”
“America should know that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace, and war with Iran is the mother of all wars,” Rouhani said.
Trump called the comments “DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!”
The fiery rhetoric by both presidents comes against the backdrop of increasingly adversarial actions between the two nations.
