Iran's Special Forces leader warns Trump: "If you start the war, we will end it"

Ankara : A powerful commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards said on Thursday that Donald Trump should directly address threats to Tehran and make fun of the US president using the language of "night clubs and gambling halls" .

Major General Qbadem Soleimani, who heads the Guards Quds Force, was the latest salvo in a war of words between the two countries.

"As a soldier, it is my duty to respond to your threats … If you want to use the language of the threat … talk to me, not to the president (Hbadan Rouhani), he does not have to speak. It is not in the dignity of our president to answer you, "said Soleimani, quoted by Iran's semi-official Tasnim news agency.
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Soleimani's message was essentially a warning to the United States to stop threatening Iran with the war or risk exposing itself to an Iranian response.
"We are near you, where you can not even imagine … Come, we are ready … If you start the war, we will end the war," said Soleimani quoted by the agency as saying. Tasnim press. "You know that this war will destroy everything you own."

Israeli Minister of Energy, Yuval Steinitz, said that Soleimani's heated rhetoric was only an "empty discussion" because Iran was aware of "the strength and strength of the US military ".

On Sunday night, Trump said in a tweet addressed to Rouhani: "Never, never threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences like those that few people in history have ever suffered before. We are no longer a country that is cautious! "

A few hours earlier, Rohani spoke to Trump in a speech, saying the hostile policies of the United States could lead to" the mother of all wars "

US President Trump said that if Iran did anything to the negative, it would pay a price as few countries have ever paid. "

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"You (Trump) threaten us to pay a price as few countries have ever paid.Trump, that's the language of nightclubs and playrooms," said Soleimani, commander of the forces of the Qods Force in charge of the Overseas Operations of the Guardians of the Revolution (19659004). and attack Israel, which Iran refuses to recognize, minutes after being attacked.

WAR OF WORDS

White House spokesman Hogan Gidley said Thursday that the Trump administration was working with its partners and allies to obtain Iran.

Gidley, addressing journalists aboard the Air Force One, flew with Trump to Washington, DC, from St. Louis, declined to comment on whether a strike was among the options. 19659004] Since Trump's decision in May to withdraw the United States from a 2015 nuclear agreement between Iran and the world powers, the clerical establishment in Tehran has been under increasing pressure from the United States and to

Washington aims to force Tehran to end its nuclear program and its support to militant groups in the Middle East, where Iran is involved in proxy wars from Yemen to the Syria.

Despite bellicose rhetoric, there is appetite in Washington for a conflict with Iran, particularly because of the difficulties the US military faced in Iraq after its invasion in 2003 but also because of the impact on the global economy if the conflict increased oil prices.

The faltering economy, slippery currency and state corruption are thrilling Iran's clerical rulers, but badysts and insiders rule out any possibility of seismic change in the Iranian political landscape .

"It's a war of words, neither side wants a military confrontation, but of course, if America attacks Iran, our response will be overwhelming," he said. Reuters a senior Iranian official, who asked not to be quoted.

Trump suggested Tuesday that talks with Iran were an option. "But finally, in a few months, half a year, they will have no choice and will come back to the negotiating table with the United States and abandon their" While the United States is pushing countries to cut all Iranian oil imports from November, Iran warned against countermeasures and threatened to block Gulf oil exports if its own Soleimani said: "The Red Sea which was safe "It's more secure today with the presence of US forces," said Soleimani. Bab al-Mandeb's path after an attack on two oil companies by the Iran-aligned Houthi movement in Yemen.

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