Iran's Quds force chief tells Trump: Threaten me, not Rouhani
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The chief of Iran's Quds force said on Thursday that US 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.
Soleimani added that the Red Sea was not secure with the presence of American troops in the area, Iran's Arabic-language Al Alam television reported: "The Red Sea which was secure is no longer secure with the American presence ... Trump should know that we are nation of martyrdom and that we await him."
Iran has dismissed a warning from Trump saying that Tehran risked dire consequences the like of which few throughout history have suffered before if it made threats against the United States.
