Result of any strike against Tehran would be ‘all out war’, warns Iran

Zarif's comments come after US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called an attack on Saudi oil installations an "act of war". The United States accuses Tehran of being behind the attack. Iran refutes these allegations.

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Ratcheting up tensions across the Persian Gulf, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Javad Zarif warned Thursday that the result of any US or Saudi military strike against his country would result in an “all-out war”, Reuters quoted CNN as saying. “I am making a very serious statement that we don’t want war; we don’t want to engage in a military confrontation … But we won’t blink to defend our territory,” Zarif told CNN.