Sen. Tim Kaine, D-Va., a member of the Senate Foreign Relations panel and the 2016 Democratic vice presidential nominee, said President Trump’s “belligerent” Sunday tweet warning Iran not to threaten the United States is “an alarming warning sign that he’s blundering toward war with Iran.”
Trump tweeted an all-caps warning aimed at Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, who earlier in response to a speech by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo threatened that a “war with Iran is the mother of all wars.”
Trump later tweeted, “NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE. WE ARE NO LONGER A COUNTRY THAT WILL STAND FOR YOUR DEMENTED WORDS OF VIOLENCE & DEATH. BE CAUTIOUS!”
Kaine said in a statement Monday that Trump’s tweet and his decision to back out of former President Barack Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran could pull the United States into “another preventable war in the Middle East.”
