President Hassan Rouhani said Wednesday that empty words and baseless threats made by some American rulers are not worthy of response.
“Resistance and solidarity of the Iranian people will be the most powerful response to the disparaging remarks by American officials,” Rouhani said, Mehr News Agency reported.
"There is no need for us to respond to nonsensical comments.”
He added Iran's "strongest response to the contemptible comments" would be "indifference to their plots and choosing to resist and foil their schemes."
Rouhani was responding to US President Donald Trump's tweet, in which he warned, "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!"
That was assumed to be a response to a speech by Rouhani earlier in the day warning Washington not to "play with the lion's tail".
"America should know that peace with Iran would be the mother of all peace, and war with Iran would be the mother of all wars," Rouhani said, according to his official website.
ICJ Case
Rouhani noted that Iran has undertaken legal international efforts to confront the US misdeeds.
“Parallel to the domestic efforts, we have started our legal and international moves, among which is the complaint we filed against the US government to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague,” he said.
US sanctions contradict its own commitments and UN resolutions and Tehran has the right to take that country to the international court, he said.
Rouhani said the proceedings have yielded their “first success” with the court telling the White House that it is not allowed to take any action that would influence the tribunal’s potential rulings before “Iran’s complaint is addressed.”
The ICJ, based in The Hague, is also known as the World Court. It is the United Nations tribunal for resolving international disputes. Iran's lawsuit calls on the ICJ to order the United States to provisionally lift its sanctions ahead of more detailed arguments.
Although the ICJ is the highest United Nations court and its decisions are binding, it has no power to enforce them, and countries–including the US–have occasionally ignored them.
