ANKARA, July 26 (Reuters) – The chief of Iran’s Quds force said on Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump should address him when threatening the Islamic Republic, the Iranian Young Journalists’ Club reported.
“As a soldier, it is my duty to respond to Trump’s threats … If he wants to use the language of threat … he should talk to me, not to the president (Hassan Rouhani),” Major-General Qassem Soleimani was quoted as saying in the central city of Hamedan.
Iran has dismissed a warning from Trump that Tehran risked dire consequences “the like of which few throughout history have suffered before” if it made threats against the United States.
(Writing by Parisa Hafezi; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
