Global tensions are increasing as President Trump is in the process of deciding whether to decertify the nuclear pact the US currently holds with Tehran.
He is expected to brand Iran’s most powerful security force Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corp (IRGC) a foreign terror organisation – putting it on the same level as the barbaric Islamic State (ISIS), according to Foreign Policy.
It comes after Iran threatened to treat US troops like ISIS if President Donald Trump bolsters new sanctions.
Mohammad Ali Jafari, head of IRGC, warned American military forces they could be in danger of an Iranian missile attack if Washington doesn’t back down.
Mr Jafari said through state media: “As we’ve announced in the past, if America’s new law for sanctions is passed, this country will have to move their regional bases outside the 2,000 km range of Iran’s missiles.”
Mr Trump has until October 15 to decide whether he will “decertify” a landmark 2015 international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme, a step that by itself stops short of pulling out of the agreement but gives Congress 60 days to decide whether to reimpose sanctions.
Individuals and entities associated with the IRGC are already on the US list of foreign terrorist organisations, but the organisation as a whole is not.
Iran’s foreign ministry spokesman Bahram Qasemi has also promised to give a “crushing” response if the US designated its elite Revolutionary Guards as a terrorist group.
In his first speech to the UN General Assembly in September, Mr Trump called Iran “a corrupt dictatorship”, and the nuclear deal negotiated by his predecessor Barack Obama “an embarrassment”.
The deal, which was also supported by Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China, saw Iran agree to curbs on its nuclear programme in return for the lifting of international sanctions that had damaged its economy.
President Trumpt this week blasted the Obama administration for agreements with Iran over the nuclear pact between the two countries by labelling it the “worst deal” days before a renewal decision.
During an interview in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the President pointed fingers at his predecessor for sending “plane loads” of cash in order to solidify the nuclear pact between the US and Iran.
He said: “It should have been taken care of long ago.
“I think it was one of the most incompetently drawn deals I’ve ever seen, we got nothing.
“Clinton gave them billions of dollars, gave them lots of other things and before the ink was dry on the contract they were already starting again with the missiles and with the nuclear, frankly.
They got a path to nuclear weapons very quickly and think of this one — $1.7billion (£1.2billion) in cash — this is cash out of your pocket. You know how many airplane loads that must be?
“So this is the worst deal. We got nothing. We got nothing.”