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Britain’s Foreign Secretary Warns Iran: Don’t Provoke the United States or “Trump Will Retaliate”

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GENEVA – Britain’s Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has told Iran on Monday not to underestimate the resolve of President Trump and the United States, warning that if American interests were attacked then the administration of President Donald Trump would retaliate.

“I would say to the Iranians: Do not underestimate the resolve on the U.S. side,” Foreign Secretary Hunt told reporters on the sidelines of the World Health Assembly in Geneva.

“They don’t want a war with Iran. But if American interests are attacked, they will retaliate. And that is something that the Iranians needs to think about very, very carefully.”

President Donald Trump on Sunday afternoon tweeted a stark warning against the government of Iran as tensions between the two countries have escalated in recent weeks.

“If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran,” Trump said on Twitter. “Never threaten the United States again!”Trump’s warning came two days after Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guards warned that Iranian missiles could hit US ships in the Gulf.

Meanwhile, the U.S. Navy’s 5th Fleet on Sunday announced it would begin “enhanced security patrols” in international waters with members of the Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.

Already, the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier, the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge and others are in the Arabian Sea, waters close to the Strait of Hormuz, the narrow mouth of the Persian Gulf through which a third of all oil traded at sea passes.

By Tom Miles
Thomsom Reuters

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