Iranian officials and US President Donald Trump have traded some of their harshest threats yet, amid growing fears of military escalation against the backdrop of protests in Iran.
Gen Abolfazl Shekarchi, spokesman for Iran’s General Staff of the Armed Forces, warned that any hostile action against supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would trigger devastating retaliation.
The warning follo
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