Iran has responded strongly to U.S. President Donald Trump’s threat to destroy its nuclear facilities, with the semi-official Fars News Agency reporting on Friday that such a threat is a clear red line and would have severe consequences.
An unnamed Iranian official stated that “If U.S. seeks a diplomatic solution, it must abandon the language of threats and sanctions,” adding that such threats “are open hostility against Iran’s national interests.”
Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday: “I want it (nuclear agreement) very strong where we can go in with inspectors, we can take whatever we want, we can blow up whatever we want, but nobody getting killed. We can blow up a lab, but nobody is gonna be in a lab, as opposed to everybody being in the lab and blowing it up.”
Trump has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities if diplomacy fails to resolve the long-standing dispute over Tehran’s nuclear program.
Despite the threats, Trump said on Friday that an Iran deal was possible in the “not-too-distant future.”
