FOX News: Iran threatens 'crushing' response as Trump takes aim at nuclear deal
Tehran is firing rhetorical warning shots at the United States as President Trump prepares to announce what is expected to be a tougher policy toward Iran, including possibly declining to 're-certify' the 2015 nuclear deal and designating the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization.
In the runup to the decision, Iranian officials have threatened consequences if Trump targets the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, or IRGC.
“I hope that the U.S. ruling body would not make the strategic mistake ... but if it does so, then Iran’s response will be firm, decisive, and crushing and the U.S. should accept its consequences,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi was quoted saying Monday by the Tasnim News Agency.
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