Iran: Mohammed Jawad Sarif is not impressed by Donald Trump

When US President Donald Trump insists on something in his Twitter posts and attaches special importance to writing, he uses capital letters. For example, he uses it regularly to write his "great" achievements, or through the media, which, in his opinion, spreads lies. On Monday, Trump wrote almost a full tweet in capital letters – he threatened Iranian President Hbadan Rohani with the most serious consequences if he threatened the United States again.

Iran's Foreign Minister Mohammed Jawad Sarif also reacted via Twitter. "We are not impressed," he writes to Trump in English – and also in capital letters. "We have been here for thousands of years, seeing the fall of empires, including ours, that have lasted longer than the lives of some countries," continued Sarif. At the end of the short message, he used the same words in capital letters that Trump had already used in his tweet to Rohani: "Be careful!"

Trump had responded to a speech by Rohani with his message. The Iranian president had threatened "the mother of all the battles" and warned that the United States should not play with fire, they could "repent for ever". Rohani also threatened to block the oil export routes into the Persian Gulf.

Since the beginning of his presidency, Trump has repeatedly criticized the Iranian leadership. In May, he announced the US release of the nuclear deal with Iran. Since then, verbal threats between Washington and the Tehran governments have increased. One of the declared goals of the United States is to stop oil exports from the Islamic Republic until early November. Iran, in turn, has a geostrategic leverage: the strait between Iran and the Arabian Peninsula (read more here).

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo compared Iran's leadership to the Mafia only on Sunday. Rohani and Sarif are only "polite front men for the international trickery" of hypocritical ayatollahs who "are more concerned with wealth than with religion". The United States would support all Iranians dissatisfied with their leadership, Pompeo said.