Reported by PMOI/MEK
July 24, 2018 – John Bolton, the National Security Advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, cautioned the Iranian regime against taking any negative action, warning that the regime would pay the price if it took any action aimed at harming the United States.
Bolton’s comments, which came in a statement published on Monday came after Hassan Rouhani, the president of the Iranian regime, issued a thinly-veiled threat against the U.S. in a meeting with the regime’s diplomats. “War with Iran is the mother of all wars,” Rouhani said, and warned Trump not to “play with the lion’s tail.”
“NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE,” President Trump subsequently responded in a tweet.
“I spoke to the President over the last several days, and President Trump told me that if Iran does anything at all to the negative, they will pay a price like few countries have ever paid before," Bolton said.
On Sunday, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo delivered a speech at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library and Museum, Simi Valley, California, in which he compared the Iranian regime’s leaders to the mafia and slammed the regime for its attempt to conduct a terrorist attack against the annual rally of the Iranian opposition in France.
The confrontation comes against the backdrop of growing tensions between the U.S. and the Iranian regime and escalating nationwide protests inside Iran. The Trump administration has discontinued the policies of the previous administration, which was more inclined toward giving concessions to the Iranian regime and turn a blind eye to its illicit activities.
In May, President Trump exited the nuclear deal forged between the Iranian regime and world powers in 2015 because it failed to fully address Tehran’s nuclear threat and did nothing about the multitudes of other threats the Iranian regime posed to the region and across the globe. The Trump administration also imposed new sanctions on the Iranian regime and secondary sanctions on entities that do business with Iran.
