Trump warns Iran that ‘nothing is off the table’ following its missile test
RT.com
2 Feb, 2017
The US President Donald Trump has warned Tehran that a military option is ‘not off the table’ as a response to the latest alleged missile test by Iran.
When asked whether the US would consider using force to respond to Tehran, Trump told reporters on Thursday that “nothing is off the table.”
On January 30, Fox News reported, citing US officials, that Iran had conducted tests of its medium-range ballistic missiles.
Washington condemned the move, saying the test undermined “security, prosperity and stability throughout and beyond the Middle East” essentially putting “lives at risk.”
“We are officially putting Iran on notice,” Trump’s National Security Advisor, Mike Flynn, warned.
The US claimed the test violated UN Security Council Resolution 2231 which called on Iran “not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles.”
Trump said that instead of conducting tests, Iran “should have been thankful” for the P5+1 deal brokered by key world powers including the US, which the new US President repeatedly called a “disaster.”
Tehran emphatically dismissed Trump’s threats saying, “The American government will understand that threatening Iran is useless,” Ali Akbar Velayati, foreign policy advisor to the Iran’s Supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, told reporters.
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