Following US President Donald Trump's 'Stone Age' threat to Iran, Tehran has turned the jibe around and accused Washington of bringing crimes from the Stone Age to the modern world.
In a statement on the official X channel of the Iranian embassy in India, Tehran stated that it will not be "driven back to the Stone Age" by bombing from the US and Israel.
"We are a nation with 7,000 years of civilization. History knows us well. What is clear is this: it is YOU who have carried the killing of children and crimes against humanity from the Stone Age into the modern world," the statement read.
Furthermore, IRGC commander Brigadier General Seyed Majid Moosavi on X also called out the US for sending its troops to their graves.
"It is you who are taking your soldiers to their graves, not Iran, whom you seek to drag back to the Stone Age. Hollywood delusions have so poisoned your minds that, with your paltry 250-year history, you threaten a civilization over 6,000 years old," he wrote on X in response to US defence Secretary Pete Hegseth's "back to the stone age" post on the social media platform.
Trump warns to bomb Iran 'back to the Stone Age'
In his highly anticipated address to the nation today, Donald Trump stated that while the US has completed its objectives, Washington will continue to target various sites across Iran.
With a lack of clarity on what these objectives actually are, Trump stated that Iran will be hit "extremely hard" over the next two to three weeks and will be brought back to the Stone Age.
"Thanks to the progress we've made, I can say tonight that we are on track to complete all of America's military objections shortly. Very shortly. We're going to hit them extremely hard over the next two to three weeks. We're going to bring them back to the Stone Ages, where they belong," said the US President.
In another response to his remarks, Iranian military spokesperson stated that Washington "known nothing" about Iran's strategic capabilities.
"Such assumptions will only deepen the quagmire you have fallen into," he said, referring to Trump's claims that Iran's military has been completely destroyed and reduced to nothing due to US-Israeli attacks.
