“If Iran wants to fight, that will be the official end of Iran,” [Trump] warned on Twitter on Sunday. “Never threaten the United States again!”
To tweet such a threat of implied nuclear annihilation at a significant Islamic country can only increase instability in an already rocking global environment where “first use” has never been eschewed by the US which is in the process of withdrawing from the limited treaty obligations of the INF with Russia and which earlier unilaterally withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal.