Head of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps General Mohammad Ali Jafari has warned that his forces would respond with an even "more decisive strike" to any attack on the country, local ISNA news agency reported on Friday.
"We will respond to any attack with an even more decisive strike," the Revolutionary Guards chief was quoted as saying late Thursday.
"The words (about the possibility of a U.S. strike on Iran) are just exaggerations and I don't think they are a threat," he added.
Jafari's comments came just after the United States announced on Thursday that it is imposing more severe sanctions against Iran, charging that Tehran supports terrorism in the Middle East, exports missiles and is engaging in a nuclear buildup.
The sanctions will be imposed against Iran's Defense Ministry, its Revolutionary Guard Corps and more than 20 Iranian companies, banks and individuals.
Under U.S. laws, any assets found in the United States belonging to the designated groups must be frozen. Americans are also forbidden from doing business with them.
The sanctions are believed to be the toughest that Washington has levied against Iran since the 1979 takeover of the U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Mohammad Ali Hosseini on Thursday slammed the U.S. fresh sanctions on the Islamic Republic, asserting the measures were doomed to failure.
Source: Xinhua
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