Iran: Trump Must Dispose Of Threat And Sanction Language
JAKARTA - US President Donald Trump's threat to destroy Iran's nuclear facilities is called a clear red line and will have severe consequences.
"If the US is looking for a diplomatic solution, the US must discard the language of threats and sanctions," an unnamed Iranian official told the Fars News agency as reported by Reuters on Saturday, May 31.
The official called Trump's threat an open hostility to Iran's national interests.
Trump previously emphasized the desire for the US-Iran to reach an agreement on nuclear matter.
"I want it (the nuclear agreement) to be very strong where we can enter with the inspector, we can take whatever we want, we can blow up whatever we want, but no one is killed. We can blow up the laboratory, but no one will be in the laboratory, not everyone is in the laboratory and everything is in the laboratory and Trump said.
Trump has repeatedly threatened to bomb Iran's nuclear facilities if diplomacy fails to resolve decades of dispute over Tehran's nuclear program.
Trump said on Friday, May 30, Iran's deal may take place in "near time."