Iran's foreign minister lashes out at Trump

ISLAMABAD — Iran’s foreign minister has lashed out during a visit to Islamabad at President Donald Trump, assailing the American president for his tweet this week warning Iran not to threaten the United States again or it would face its “official end.”

Mohammad Javad Zarif says, “Iran will see the end of Trump, but he will never see the end of Iran.”

The remarks came during Zarif’s visit to Islamabad on Friday where he was thought to be seeking Islamabad’s help to help de-escalate the situation in the Persian Gulf amid the crisis between Tehran and Washington.

Zarif also chastised the Trump administration for designating last month Iran’s powerful paramilitary Revolutionary Guard force as a terrorist group — the first such U.S. designation for an entire division of another government.

The semi-official Fars news agency quoted Zarif as saying that though Trump “accused the Iranian nation several times with this title (terrorist), he is the one that deserves it.”