US Vice President Mike Pence attacked the Iranian regime and its recent threats, saying that the United States would not tolerate Iran sowing violence or terror across the world – and making threats. In a news conference in Pennsylvania on Monday, Pence stated that the US wont be lenient with violence practiced by Iran and terrorism promoted by it, the US will not go easy with the threats against it. Newspapers and TV channels followed up the word war between Iranian president Hassan Rouhani and US President Donald Trump. Rouhani warned from a battle in case the US continues its plans to impose sanctions and prevent Iran from exporting oil. Rouhani hinted on closing straits such as Strait of Hormuz. In return, Trump tweeted “Never, ever threaten the United States again or you will suffer consequences the likes of which few throughout history have ever suffered before," Trump tweeted after returning to the White House from a weekend at his golf resort in Bedminster, New Jersey. "We are no longer a country that will stand for your demented words of violence & death. Be cautious!" Several analysts of the Iranian policies saw that Trump’s tweet an intimidation attempt, saying that a real confrontation or war is unlikely between Iran and the US. Hassan Yari, a political-science professor at Queens University, said that the Iranian regime remained for 40 years saying Death to US, and it can’t back off now. Barbara Slavin, the director of the Future of Iran Initiative at the Atlantic Council, said that it is unlikely for a war to take place between Iran and US because it serves no one’s interest, but the possible conflict zone is Strait of Hormuz. The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) ships irked the fifth US fleet conducting patrols in the water canal during the past years. Strait of Hormuz resulted in violent clashes in 1988 when the US Navy forces drowned 3 Iranian warships and destroyed two oil stands.
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