(MENAFN- Jordan News Agency)
Washington, May 20 (Petra) - As tensions escalate between the U.S. and Iran, President Donald Trump warned the Islamic republic on Sunday that a fight would result in its demise.
US President, Donald Trump, vowed not to let Iran get nuclear weapons, yet reiterated his reluctance to go to war.
In a wide-ranging interview with Fox News on Monday, Trump continued opposing military intervention but indicated Iranian nuclear development would constitute an urgent exception.
"I don't want to fight. But you do have situations like Iran, you can't let them have nuclear weapons -- you just can't let that happen," he said.
Hours before the interview, Trump tweeted "If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran. Never threaten the United States again".
The tweet came after US intelligence photographs, published in The New York Times on Friday, of missiles on small boats in the Persian Gulf that were put on board by Iranian paramilitary forces for a possible attack on Gulf states at any time.
Additional pieces of intelligence picked up threats against commercial shipping and potential attacks by Iran on American troops in Iraq.
RZ
20/05/2019 10:06:09
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