Donald Trump warns ‘demented’ Iran President Hassan Rouhani to ‘never, ever threaten the US again or else face the consequences’
DONALD Trump issued a dramatic warning to Iran's "demented" leader today saying the Islamic Republic would suffer historic "consequences" if it threatened the US.
In a terrifying early morning Twitter post, the US President issued a warning in all capital letters to premier Hassan Rouhani as tensions grow between the two nations.
He tweeted: "NEVER EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKE OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE."
It comes after Rouhani cautioned Trump over his hostile policies against Tehran.
The Iranian president believes there have been efforts by Washington to destabilise Iran's Islamic government.
On Sunday, he said: "American must understand well that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars."
Trump withdrew in May from the 2015 nuclear deal designed to stop Iran from developing nuclear weapons.
Tehran has said its nuclear work is just for electricity generation and other peaceful projects.
But on Sunday, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, opened a war of words when he compared Iran to a "mafia".
Speaking in California, he said Iranian leaders had benefited from bribes and embezzlement.
He described two Iranian foreign ministers who brokered the nuclear deal with the US and five other countries as "polished front men for the ayatollahs international con artistry."
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Rouhani replied to Pompeo's comments by saying: "You are not in a position to incite the Iranian nation against Iran's security and interests."
This sparked a furious response from Trump.
Publicly, the Trump administration says its policy with Iran is not "regime change," but to change Tehran's behaviour so it stops nuclear and missile work, support for proxies in the Middle East and backing of militant groups.
Why are there tensions between the US and Iran?
Before the 1979 Iranian revolution, Iran was one of America's biggest allies in the troubled Middle East and was led by the US-backed Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
However, since the seismic revolt, Iran has been led by murderous Islamic fundamentalists and tensions with Washington have remained ever since.
On November 4, 1979, the Iranian regime took 52 US diplomats hostage in response to President Carter’s administration allowing Iran’s deposed former leader into America.
The hostage crisis lasted for 444 days and also included a failed rescue mission which cost the lives of eight US soldiers.
In April 1980, the US ended diplomatic relations with Iran – a break which lasted for more than 30 years.
In April 1983, Washington blamed the Iranian-funded terror group Hezbollah for carrying out a bombing attack on the American embassy in Beirut, Lebanon.
The assault, carried out amid a brutal civil war in Lebanon, killed 17 Americans.
In November of that year, two truck bombs in Beruit killed 241 US peace keepers. The US again blamed Hezbollah for the incident.
The Clinton White House, in 1995, placed a total embargo on Iran meaning US companies could not trade with the country.
And in 2002, George W Bush included the Islamic Republic in his famous “Axis of evil” speech along with North Korea and Iraq.
What was the Iran nuclear deal?
The deal was an agreement between the Islamic Republic and a group of world powers aimed at scrapping the Middle Eastern country's nuclear weapons programme.
It saw Iran agree to eliminate its stockpile of medium-enriched uranium by 98 per cent.
According to the deal, Iran would receive relief from the US, European Union, and the United Nations Security Council on all nuclear-related economic sanctions.
The agreement was reached on July 14, 2015, and the world powers signed it in Vienna.
However, on May 8, 2018, President Trump announced the US will withdraw from the agreement - which he has repeatedly called "insane" and ridiculous".
The America's withdrawal from the agreement mean crippling economic sanctions will once again be placed on Iran - further heightening tensions between the two countries.
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