The White House says US President Donald Trump’s threatening tweet shows he’s not going to tolerate critical rhetoric from Iran, but claims the US leader isn’t escalating tensions between the two countries.
Press secretary Sarah Sanders says that “if anybody’s inciting anything, look no further than to Iran.”
Sanders says that Trump has been “very clear about what he’s not going to allow to take place.”
Her comments follow a late-night tweet from the president last night addressed to Iran’s leaders: “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE.”
Trump was responding to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani comments that “America must understand well that peace with Iran is the mother of all peace and war with Iran is the mother of all wars.”
Sanders says Trump is not trying to change the conversation from his much-criticized Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin last week.
— AP
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