Ali Larijani told US President Donald Trump to “be careful not to be eliminated” after Trump warned Iran it would face severe retaliation if it disrupted oil flows through the Strait of Hormuz.
Larijani, the secretary of Iran’s Supreme National Security Council, said the Iranian nation was not afraid of what he called Trump’s threats.
“Greater powers than you could not eliminate the Iranian nation,” he wrote on X, adding: “Be careful not to be eliminated.”
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Trump said on Monday the United States would hit Iran “twenty times harder” and unleash “death, fire and fury” if Tehran took steps to stop the flow of oil through the Strait of Hormuz.
