Iran mocks 9/11 comparing the ‘weak’ US to the collapse of the Twin Towers
General Hossein Salami delivered his sickening low blow as tensions in the Middle East reach breaking point
A TOP Iranian military leader has taunted Donald Trump with a sick reference to the 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center.
General Hossein Salami - an outspoken critic of the US - delivered his vile 9/11 low blow as tensions in the Middle East reached breaking point.
“The (US political]) system has an apparently huge body, but suffers from osteoporosis,” he told the Fars news agency.
“In fact, the US is like World Trade Building that collapses with a sudden hit.”
However, while Salami claimed the US “has cracked and lost its strength,” Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif insisted his country is “not seeking war” with America.
Washington has tightened economic sanctions against Iran in recent weeks, trying to cut Tehran's oil exports to zero.
"This moment in history, because the enemy has stepped into the field of confrontation with us with all the possible capacity, is the most decisive moment of the Islamic revolution.”
Iran's defence minister then doubled-down on the tough talk by saying his country's military would defeat any US-Israel alliance.
“Iran has the highest level of defence-military preparedness to confront any type of threat and excessive demands,” Amir Hatami told the Islamic Republic News Agency.
A senior Iranian official also told Reuters that Tehran was ready for any possible scenario from “confrontation to diplomacy” but the US could not afford another war in the Middle East.
It's been reported that Trump is hoping to use his deal-making skills to avert a full-scale war with Iran.
The US President is apparently becoming increasingly frustrated with the hawkish advisers he believes are trying to railroad him into an armed conflict.
He now wants to turn peacemaker and stand by his long-standing pledge to withdraw the US from costly foreign wars.
America has already deployed an aircraft carrier and B-52 bombers to the Persian Gulf to counter alleged, still-unspecified threats from Tehran.
And the US is planning to deploy as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East if Iran attacks American forces, a bombshell report claimed this week.
In chilling echoes of the invasion of Iraq, US defence chiefs have reportedly drawn up fresh military plans that would see a huge response to Iranian aggression.