'DON'T TEST US':UNITED KINGDOM'S IRANIAN AMBASSADOR HAMID BAEIDINEJAD SERIOUSLY REBUFFS THE UNITED STATES

'Don't test us': UK's Iranian ambassador Hamid Baeidinejad issues warning to US
Hamid Baeidinejad tells Sky News that Iranian armed forces are "fully ready for any eventuality in the region".
With America threatening to ship 120,000 troops to the region, the ambassador broke his silence to spell out his country's readiness for war.
"While we have renounced any escalation in the region, I would guarantee you that Iranian armed forces are fully equipped for any eventuality in the region, so they should not strive to test the willpower of Iran to confront any escalation in the region," he said.
In distinction to their US counterparts, Iranian diplomats seldom provide interviews.
The reality that Mr Baeidinejad has completed so now speaks volumes.
His authorities will be concerned through each the growing belligerence of Mr Trump's administration and the Europeans' failure to maintain their aspect of the nuclear bargain.
Mr Baeidinejad is one of his country's most professional diplomats.
He used to be one of the key Iranian negotiators in the nuclear talks. He will have chosen his phrases carefully, making his warning all the more striking.
His comments come the day after President Trump warned Iran that "if they do anything, they will suffer greatly".
Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt is concerned about an unintended US-Iran hostilities - perhaps we ought to be too, But the Iranian ambassador told the masses, his authorities did not believe Mr Trump used to be serious about threatening hostilities and was once now not worried via his comments.
"I think part of this is theatrical manoeuvres with the aid of the US," he said.
"Our evaluation is they, [or] at least President Trump, would not desire to interact in navy war of words with Iran because of how steeply-priced it will be for the US and for the region."
He used to be speaking the day after Iran was blamed by some for mysterious sabotage assaults on tankers in the Persian Gulf - and on the day of pronounced drone attacks on a Saudi oil pipeline.
But the ambassador advised 
"We absolutely reject this," he said.
"It is very suspicious to us and we hope an worldwide fact finding mission may want to actually discover the reasons for these sabotages which are without a doubt suspicious to us."
The ambassador used to be talking a few days after his government laid down the gauntlet to European nations, inclusive of the UK, over the Iranian nuclear deal, regarded as the JCPOA (Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action).
The US chief walked out on the deal a year ago and has given that tried its hardest to punish international locations and corporations that exchange with Iran.
Tehran believes the Europeans could do more to help Iran continue trading, and has given them 60 days to do so.
 
If they fail to do so it says it could start enriching uranium again.
Ambassador Baeidinejad says Europe ought to do more to stand up to the Trump administration.
He said: "Iran has been enforcing all its obligations, but the other facets have now not been implementing their responsibilities and this is a scenario that cannot proceed in this manner.
"So Iran wanted to give a very necessary sign that things must be rectified and should be redressed."
Relations between the UK and Iran has been problematic even in addition by every other espionage case delivered with the aid of Iranian authorities.
 
An Iranian woman was once sentenced to ten years for spying for Britain yesterday, in addition to Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe - a British-Iranian mom nevertheless being held.
The ambassador said he used to be ready for greater small print about the today's case, but stood by way of his country's prosecution of suspected spies.
"If everyone contravenes the law or is a relationship with the secret offerings or Genius services, they expect to face the law," he said.