‘Send Netanyahu to hell’: Iran warns of ‘confrontation’ if US blockade continues
Iranian official Mohsen Rezaei has threatened a severe confrontation with the US and Israel if economic blockades continue. The warning includes threats to target US economic interests and aggressive rhetoric directed at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Highlights the escalating geopolitical tensions in the Middle East and the potential for direct conflict involving US interests.
Iran has issued a fresh warning to Israel and the United States, with its security chief threatening a severe confrontation if Washington continues its blockade and vowing to target US economic interests in the region.Iran's Secretary of the Supreme National Security Council, Major General Mohsen Rezaei, said Tehran would "send Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, to hell" if tensions escalate again."We will send Benjamin Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of the Zionist regime, to hell," Rezaei said, according to Iranian state news agency IRIB, in an interview with Al-Manar.Rezaei claimed Netanyahu's actions had brought the "end of the Zionist regime's existence near" and accused the Israeli prime minister of spreading false information about an alleged Iranian plot to assassinate US President Donald Trump's son."Netanyahu has panicked Trump and disrupted his decision-making by spreading false news about an 'Iranian plot to assassinate Trump.
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