Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said his country's armed forces are ready to respond to any military action by the United States, Reuters reported, quoted by BTA.
„The Iranian armed forces are ready, with their finger on the trigger, to respond to any aggression“, Araghchi said.
Meanwhile, Ali Shamkhani, an advisor to Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, wrote on the social network „Ex“ that any military action by Washington would lead to strikes by the Islamic Republic against the United States, Israel and the countries supporting them.
„Iran's response to any American "The strike will be immediate, with all means available and unprecedented," he said.
Araghchi and Shamkhani's comments follow Donald Trump's warning today to Iran to either sit down at the negotiating table to reach a nuclear weapons deal or the subsequent US strike will be far worse.