Any U.S. mistake would 'be like firing a powder keg,' Iran says

Abbas Mousavi.
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Although President Trump decided not to launch a military strike against Iran, the two sides continue to spar verbally.

Iran said it would respond firmly to any U.S. threat against it, Iran's Tasnim news agency reported on Saturday, one day after Trump said he called off a military strike to retaliate for Iran shooting down a U.S. drone on Thursday. Trump, though, told NBC News if the time for war does come there will be "obliteration like you've never seen before."

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Tim O'Donnell

Tim is a staff writer at The Week and has contributed to Bedford and Bowery and The New York Transatlantic. He is a graduate of Occidental College and NYU's journalism school. Tim enjoys writing about baseball, Europe, and extinct megafauna. He lives in New York City.