Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei says US threats “will get them nowhere when confronting Iran” after President Trump warned of possible military action against the country, Al Jazeera reports.

“They [US] and others should know if they do anything malign to the Iranian nation, they will get a hard slap,” Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said during a live televised speech.

The US president’s threat that “every shot” fired by the Houthis in Yemen will be viewed as an attack from Iran has escalated tensions.

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