Iran said on Monday that a US attack of any scale would spur the Islamic republic to respond “ferociously”, after President Donald Trump said he was considering limited strikes against the country.
The United States has built up forces in the Middle East to pile pressure on Iran to make a deal at negotiations due to restart on Thursday, with Trump weighing a limited strike if no agreement is reached. On Monday Iran’s foreign ministry reiterated that any strike, even limited, would be “would be regarded as an act of aggression. Period”.
“And any state would react to an act of aggression as part of its inherent right of self-defence ferociously so that’s what we would do,” ministry spokesperson Esmaeil Baqaei said at a briefing in Tehran attended by an AFP journalist.
